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  1. Chuck Palahniuk _ Invisible Monsters

    Tell the world what scares you the most" says Brandy.She gives us each an Aubergine Dreams eyebrow pencil and says "Save the world with some advice from the future"Seth writes on the back of a card and hands the card to Brandy for her to read. On game shows, Brandy reads, some people will take the trip to France, but most people will take the washer dryer pair."Brandy puts a big Plumbago kiss in the little square for the stamp and lets the wind lift and card and sail it off toward the towers of downtown Seattle.Seth hands her another, and Brandy reads:Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random useless facts that are all we have left from our education"A kiss and the card's on it's way toward Lake Washington.From Seth: When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?"A kiss and it's off on the wind toward Ballard.Only when we eat up this planet will God give us another. We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create."Interstate 5 snakes by in the distance. From high atop the Space Needle, the southbound lanes are red chase lights, and the northbound lanes are white chase lights. I take a card and write:I love Seth Thomas so much I have to destroy him. I overcompensate by worshipping the queen supreme. Seth will never love me. No one will ever love me ever again.Beandy is waiting to rake the card and read it out loud. Brandy's waiting to read my worst fears to the world, but I don't give her the card. I kiss it myself with the lips I don't have and let the wind take it out of my hand. The card flies up, up, up to the stars and then falls down to land in the suicide net. While I watch my future trapped in the suicide net Brandy reads another card from Seth.We are all self-composting"I write another card from the future and Brandy reads it:When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves"An updraft lifts up my worst fears from the suicide net and lifts them away.Seth writes and Brandy reads.You have to keep recycling yourself".I write and Brandy reads.Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known." I write and Brandy reads.The one you love and the one who loves you are never ever the same person.
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