Best of Luck

by Jason Mott

“A good joke is just a small story, you know. Only difference is the delivery.”

It was a sour yet sweet smell. Old milk with a hint of cedar. Curdled Christmas.

How come we have a word for a child that loses their parents but no word for a parent that loses their children?

When people think about karma, it’s basically ‘anytime bad things happen to someone you don’t like.’ But that’s not really what karma is. Karma is about balance. Hell, the whole universe only exists because of balance. For any one thing, there’s an equal amount of an opposite thing, you know? And that’s how we all get along. We move through all of this balance. “But let’s not confuse balance with justice. Those are two different animals. Justice is all about fairness, and I never said the universe was fair. No sir. Nothing about this universe is fair, and the only people who believe that are the people who haven’t lived long enough to have their stupidity corrected by life.”