Break The Bodies, Haunt The Bones: A Novel

by Micah Dean Hicks

the dead still sang their old songs.

Deadhead confirmed

They dared to hope that they could be what she needed, and like moths courting a candle, their hope killed them.

Nice analogy

He was too deep in his own haunting to see how happy he would be without it. She would show him.

“Eventually,” said Hogboss, “our goal is for all pigs to be self-slaughtering pigs.”

Wow! This is really sick and speaks to the goal of the consummate capitalist. 100% efficiency to be sure.

Does she? If you only love things that love you back, do you really love anyone but yourself ?

Fair point.

They didn’t think about their pain, instead fixating on the cost. They resented doctors the same way they did mechanics, experts who discovered a problem and then made them pay for it.

But... that's only one side of the story. From the doctor, the mechanic, or (putting on my other hat) the programmer perspective, you don't really see what we are doing for the layman, or if you do, you don't understand it. Yes, we help create the complexity, but... you asked for it. Your really did.

“You want to be with my brother?” he asked. “Then dig. Make a hole and get inside.”

i am happily digging at least. This story is really ramping up! :-)

There are people out here, her ghost said. Or maybe pigs. I could never tell the difference.

Yep. But not because people are less but pigs are more. The whole use of pigs invokes Animal Farm too. This was a great idea.