Short Kings Rise Up

forget skipping work or school or birth. try everything. never experience anything that expires a negative emotion. the ideal consciousness sold as a product for the price of a version of you that you'll never meet.

but it doesn't matter. you carry the hurt down with you. in your hands, in your mind, your mouth. the grief mark experiences carried into his innie, gemma feeling the pain she experienced in the rooms even after she's been severed.

Ever since I was a child people said my family was cursed. It never seemed to worry my father. He said if we were the toughest, the strongest, the most successful, the absolute best, nothing could ever hurt us. I believed him. We all did.

THE IRON CLAW | 2023