Bubble Wrap

my patience is tapped.
it's time to tell me-
wyatt
you need to accept that all those questions chasing each others tails in your psyche will probably never be answered
tell me
you were six when your father was arrested for the final time
yes
not that it's any of your business but i was seven.
with your mother killed during one of your fathers criminal ventures
you were raised by your grandmother
because of what happened to her daughter your grandmother would not let you visit your father
when he died in prison two years later
all you had to remember him by was the replica pistol he gave you before he was arrested
the one you used to keep under your pillow
where..?
garry would never have told you all that.
correct
my conversation with garry was quite brief
then how..?
over the years i have developed a need to better understand the people i
meet
these stories have helped me elicit a greater enjoyment from my work
for which
this skill i have honed
you're delusional
stop me if i get something wrong

by Goatlord

I set off a nuclear bomb the other day.

I felt bad about all the people in the town that was about to become the foundations for a large, crater shaped swimming pool so I murdered them all first.

I guess I could have warned them of their imminent evaporation instead.

Funny how the mind works, wot?

The actual detonation (viewed from a vantage point on high and many, many miles from ground zero) was somewhat cathartic, though.

As all such moments, it was far too fleeting and the memory impermanent.

So soon the next town beckons...