The Butcher and The Wren
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Read between October 27 - October 30, 2024
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People are just too dumb to understand that their own predilections are suggestive of a gene pool that is rooted in brutality.
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The Louisiana sun is pretty unforgiving to the living, but it is particularly cruel to the dead.
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bearing witness to the horrors that human beings willingly inflict upon one another burrows far deeper.
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The voices of dead are forever silenced. They’re shells of clinically relevant tissue with no method of communicating what they truly experienced
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No one can know the utter loneliness that precedes death until it comes for them.
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Physiologically, they can accurately explain what happens when a heart stops beating, but not the anguish that pours from someone’s soul the moment they realize their life is being snuffed out by another.
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This killer’s crimes are like an airborne virus, infecting everyone along the way to its primary target. It’s all collateral damage to him, but to the real people involved, it consumes their every cell.
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Believe it or not, cleavage doesn’t correlate with intelligence.”
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Hunting at night is a lesson in fear. It teaches you to control your instincts and accept the unfamiliar sounds that slither out from hidden places once the sun goes down.
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Night dwellers know that the silence is a myth. It is always loudest at night.