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For as long as he can remember, he has hated loud noises. As a child he would feel his surroundings close in on him like a vise whenever he was amid the sounds of a crowded place.
Her brutal strangulation was just something her killer enjoyed before finally giving her the release of death,
Vigils always fascinated him. What good are your candles and photographs doing while Katie and Matt suffer in my basement?
About as useful as “thoughts and prayers”.
Stomach wounds are truly harrowing. Bile and acid pour into the wound, slowly poisoning the victim with their own bodily fluids.
WREN IS FRUSTRATED. UNIDENTIFIED BODIES in her morgue irritate her endlessly. Mostly, it’s due to her own neurotic need to finish what she starts and clear items from her to-do lists.
Is it not enough drama to take a life away? Are they so starved for validation that they have to package their carnage up like a Jack in the Box toy? It’s always about control. This kind of monster feels power in making sure everyone knows that he is in charge.
The mechanics of pain are both intricate and simple, a fundamental dichotomy. Physiologically, pain requires a perfect symphony of chemical reactions. Each piece hitting at just the correct time for the feeling to materialize. A stimulus sends an impulse across a peripheral nerve fiber, which is in turn perceived and identified by the somatosensory cortex. If any part of the stimulus’s journey is interrupted, then the feeling will be diminished. In contrast, the act of sending that electrical impulse on its journey to perception is something even troglodytes could master. All it takes is an
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“They are like trees falling in the forest. They fall. Some people will genuinely care, but most will just want to collect the free firewood and move on.”
The lights throw shadows on the streets. They become part of your path, like loa being called upon by a voodoo priestess. There’s a cozy spookiness that covers New Orleans at night. Lush ferns and hanging plants spill from the balconies like ribbons, perfectly complimenting the intricate ironwork that the French Quarter is known for.
“People look for patterns that aren’t there because they are scared shitless. They can’t handle that they are just as likely to be scooped up by a totally normal-looking psychopath as the victims were, so they make up this crap instead.”
WRENS ARE TRULY MAGNIFICENT LITTLE creatures. They signify rebirth and protection, immortality, and strength. Because of the wren’s small stature, most larger birds and predators underestimate its incredible ingenuity and intelligence. But while technically fragile, the wren outwits its underprepared predator to come out on top when threatened.
“Yeah, but all things worth considering are an amalgamation of scary and beautiful. How boring it is to fit into only one category.”
“Calm down, Tara! Did you know that the meat actually tastes worse when the animal displays extreme fear before slaughter? Something about the lactic acid breakdown.”
Negligence eventually leads to vulnerability,
