nineteen claws and a black bird.
dialogue prompts from nineteen claws and a black bird: stories by agustina bazterrica.
human evil knows no limits.
did you just call me ____?
old age that's covered up irritates me.
do you mind if i put some music on?
you're consistent, if alarming.
you need to know how to look.
let's go. take me with you. you know where.
i don't need more men in my life.
i want to die with the style and dignity of a cartoon character.
i don't have a loved one.
i was just imagining your chest with a bomb inside it.
i don't know how to live through a real tragedy.
i love you more than my life.
you broke my heart into a thousand pieces.
you need to see a doctor.
i'm telling you this as a friend. you know that, right?
you know what i'm talking about. of course you do.
you'll learn to live with the fear.
you're always saying such strange and unfavorable things.
if i stop, i start thinking about the shadows of things.
you've always wanted me close.
i can't bear the thought of being close.
i just want you to look at me again.
i don't mind being ignored. i prefer the silence.
death is a pastime for you.
each of us is a wolf devouring another in exquisite eternity.
are you going to kill me?
all dead people go to the moon.
i think dust is the soul's filth.
sometimes the ghosts sing to me.
you're not always a scary bad word.
what would happen if i drank holy water?
you don't sing to me anymore.
you're messing up my hair.
people will do anything to dissipate the monotony of their lives.
i only write to you so that i don't kill you.
no one will remember you.
it's like i never stop dying.
you have the smile of a porcelain antique.
i don't want to feel alone in my pain.
is this your little hell? your private torment?
i want to be a circle, round and infinite.
misery hides in vulgarity.
misery is destructive and, as such, ephemeral.
we love one another because we repulse one another.
i want to shrink to the edges of inexistence.
consider this your first glimpse of hell.
the silence is so sharp, it bleeds.
i just wanted to fit in somewhere.
your hair looks better loose.
i need to understand if it's real.
i don't know what they did to me.
we have to make up for lost time.
what animal would you like to be?
you look like you know something.
in the dark, one is truly alone.
can you tell me where the exit is?