“he whistle means he is far away. The silence means he is close.”
Source: Ecos del Miedo / Echoes of Fear: Horror Stories from the Heart of Latin America
“My fear buys nothing. I expect it to buy nothing. In this case, I want it to buy nothing--who cares how I feel about flags? And yet, I know other people's fear--as irrational than mine, more irrational than mine--buys everything. It moves armies, obliterates thousands. As with rage, there is an invisible force to fear, a gravity. I can no more push my fear upward into another echelon of privilege than those above me can help but let theirs fall, with terrible force, onto the lives of those below.”
Source: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
“Immigrants are supposed to be grateful. The narrative arc of immigration, in which one flees their own failing society to come to a better place, a country that was under no obligation to accept them but did, demands perpetual gratitude. And it exists, this gratitude, but the narrative makes no room for the many shapes it comes in, its many less straightforward forms. I harbor no ill will toward the immigrant who waves the miniature flag on the sides of the Independence Day parade, who says honestly and plainly: I love this country. But nor do I judge the immigrant who is as emotionless and pragmatic about the nation-state as the people who run that nation-state are so regularly emotionless and pragmatic about immigrants, who says honestly and plainly: I don't love this country, don't love any country, patriotism being the property of an entirely different kind of life than luck has given me; I live here because it will always be safer to live on the launching side of the missiles. I live here because I am afraid.”
Source: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
“The body never lies.
It just waits for you to stop listening to your mind.”
Source: WOLF SUIT: A Dark Supernatural Noir — Book 1
“for I had spent many hours nurturing a rare state of mind in which the purest euphoria was invaded and enriched by currents of fear.”
Source: Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
“The wall wasn’t separating them. It was connecting him to something that shouldn’t exist.”
Source: THE APARTMENT NEXT DOOR: A Psychological Horror Thriller
“He didn’t steal youth.
He rented it—with his life.”
Source: WOLF SUIT: A Dark Supernatural Noir — Book 1
“The more perfect he looked,
the less human he became.”
Source: WOLF SUIT: A Dark Supernatural Noir — Book 1
“You don’t fall in love with people.
You fall in love with what they hide.”
Source: WOLF SUIT: A Dark Supernatural Noir — Book 1
“A fearful mind doesn’t ask better questions, it looks for faster answers. It trades curiosity for certainty, and complexity for rules. Instead of exploring what’s changing, it scans for something to hold onto. Something to follow. Something that promises relief from uncertainty. And that’s where fear becomes easy to weaponize.”
Source: Learn to Love the Roller Coaster: Stories of Change, Resilience, and the Future to Come