I didn’t expect her to hit me. It was a hard slap.
“Stop thinking of her,” she said.
“She taught me how to love,” I said.
“My fool, what kind of #education did you have? Don’t you remember my first class about love?”
“What’s that?”
“Two is a crowd for ghosts.”
#vss365
Act I
He: I just want you to be with me.
She: Don’t be so needy for company.
Act II
(Actors have aged by 4 years.)
She: You don’t even touch me anymore.
He: Didn’t you tell me not to need your company?
(Note to actors: Add #venomous tone where required.)
#vss365
When the train stopped at my place, one of the passengers wondered aloud, "What's the opposite of #otherworldly? This is it. Who lives here?"
When I got down, they must have stared at the shadows around me on the platform. And, wondered why I did not have a shadow.
#vss365
When she #accepted
Him, not me, should I have thought
Anger, betrayal?
The #language of love
Taught me I should love her more
Than he ever could.
She would then return
To him with such hate for all-
What a daydream, no?
#haikufeels
#vss365
Oh hell,
we won’t shout,
like that crazy couple,
on the phone,
at each other,
in public,
hell no.
We won’t do
that we promised
we won't do
We won’t
destroy each other
like they do
but we will
till we tell ourselves
with #tranquil certainty
we ain’t doing it.
#vss365
It was black again. For the ninth time.
"Am I #hallucinating?" the lady next to me said.
She had been putting increasing bets on red.
I stuck to the minimum on black.
The croupier congratulated me the same way each time.
I waited for red, to say, "C'est la vie."
#vss365
#scifi
#story
-Have they had sex?
-Not even the latest gen can. Not with total consent. Without being vulnerable. Not under the influence of anything.
-Have you tried removing restricting parameters?
-Removed non-vocal expressions of the above. Didn't help.
-How did the older gen of human beings do it?
-They invariably raped. With six-sigma efficiency.
-How about ignoring the rights of any one party?
-That might help if we also make the other insensitive aka dead.
-We have to make them do it somehow.
-Why?
-Unless they have sex aka make love, they won't indulge in war.
-Is that the original sin?
-No. Creation wins that prize.
