Archive for November, 2007

Afraid of the Night Time

November 04th, 2007 | Category: writing

Walking through the house, towards the front door. You are with me. We have done this same sequence before. But this time the people following us are closing in, and I don’t want to wait till the correct moment: A deer is pissing on the front walk. It has to finish what it’s doing. (Was it piss, turn around, and die? I can’t remember for sure.) So I open the front door too soon. So we can get away. And I open the front door, and I stop, stunned, terrified, simply by the deer pissing, the unfinished sequence, and the late hour of the dark night. I turn to you and say, “The thing about these simulations is, if they’re not perfect, they don’t work.”

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