In a blighted place you got to watch your step...

"Distance seduces the rational mind, just as
closeness seduces the irrational." --Thomas
Disch, "102 H-Bombs"

A novel is a world--a short story is a place.

I find out when i've been living with insufficient
consciousness the same way i find out i've been
reading without enough light--by the headache
it gives me.