The Rent Collector

by Camron Wright

a life where the hope of tomorrow is traded to satisfy the hunger of today.

“Believing is not enough, Sang Ly. If you want to resurrect hope, doing is the most important. Can you do these things?”

even though something is broken, it can still serve a purpose.

Sometimes broken things deserve to be repaired.

“Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside—and even if you find them all, if you don’t enjoy the path that leads you to them, it will be a hollow accomplishment. There was a playwright named Heller, American, I believe, who summed it up this way. He said, ‘They knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.’ ”

Words provide a voice to our deepest feelings. I tell you, words have started and stopped wars. Words have built and lost fortunes. Words have saved and taken lives. Words have won and lost great kingdoms.