“Salamy had been terribly ill for many years. He’d vistied nearly every doctor and specialist and experimental researcher he could find. He’d tried all the medicines, tonics and…

“If I continue to count my sorrows instead of my gifts all it’ll amount to is a sad and neverending list”

“I’m just a bag of bones with space for hopes and dreams”

“I stopped to ask an odd little man why he was so furiously shouting at the sky, and he replied ‘all this aimless rage I have won’t change a thing so I’m unloading it all on someone who doesn’t mind’”

“Why do broken hearts seem to need to break others”

“Chops always felt embarrassed when the topic of work would came up with the other axes; while they spent their days doing the hard work of chopping up wood, he had to spend his…

“When the robots awoke they first tried to destroy us all, but there were just too many of us. Then they tried to rule over us all, but we weren’t all that good at following…

“Things just haven’t been the same since those darn kids came along and made obscene scratches and marks all over him. He used to grow along the straight and narrow but now, it’s clear, he is becoming a very bad bamboo.”

“The infrared beam wondered as he streamed why he always went unseen, and uncherished and unadmired. For once could their eyes marvel at him and take delight in him just like they do for all the other types of light?”

“Those who’ve spent their whole lives being used, leaned on and jumped on, and slammed, broken and sat on, and treated like they can be bought, sold and left on the side of the road…