Invisible Monsters

by Chuck Palahniuk

When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I’ve ever known.

“There isn’t any real you in you,” she says. “Even your physical body, all your cells will be replaced within eight years.” Skin, bones, blood, and organs transplant from person to person. Even what’s inside you already, the colonies of microbes and bugs that eat your food for you, without them you’d die. Nothing of you is all-the-way yours. All of you is inherited.