Riot Act (Crooked Sinners)

by Callie Hart

Ever been in a car accident? It’s weird. There’s this moment, right as it’s happening and metal meets metal, that you realize you’re in grave, imminent danger, and you know there’s nothing you can do about it. You exist inside that weird moment, straining against the surprise, desperate to just move! but you’re paralyzed, watching it all unfold, locked in place…

Want something? Pax will take it from you. Love something? Pax will destroy it. Love him? Then Heaven help you. You’d have to be the stupidest person to walk the face of the earth.

When all a person has ever known is misery...it's what they come to expect. Soon, they feed on it, because it's the only sustenance they know. Eventually, their misery becomes their strength. They can endure so much more than anyone else.

“The path of least resistance doesn’t always mean taking the easiest option. Sometimes…it means that your soul finds its way home, toward something it loves, after you’ve held it back for too fucking long. So…do with that what you will, I guess.”