December 2008
3 posts
You see all of the worst parts of America from a train. Between the back alley construction sites and wearhouses lay piles of scrap and other debris carelessly left to rot. There are no nice homes near the tracks. The closest you get to viewing an upscale neighborhood is when you pass through a city or are high up on a hill, and faintly, in the distance, you can see a gleaming area of economic...
I woke up and blinked myself in to a bleary semi-consciousness, sitting on the corner of the bed, rocking slowly back and forth as I convinced enough of my synapses to fire up for me to stand. Finally, gaining control of my senses I shook my head and stood up and stretched. I yawned, lips cracking, my mouth an arid wasteland tasting of burning death. My, I thought to myself, what wonderful side...
We have decided to set down that which is we, just as our forebears have done from the dawn of history. We do this in the hope that you, the outsider, who is reading these words will come to understand what we are, what we have done, and why we have done it. We doubt we are like anything you may have encountered before, and so we wish to show you what we have done to ourselves and why. To show how...