Richard House

...WHAT DID YOU DO TODAY...that counts?...that carries meaning?...that made the day worthwhile?...what will you do tomorrow?

A tongue in a bag. Teeth. A room drenched in blood.

A human has seven litres of blood. This they had taught him in the army. Seven litres, which, with an arterial cut will vent a fountain two or three metres, and take three to four minutes to bleed out.

They believed the devil would rise from here,_ she said. ____ serious. They thought he would come up through the cracks in the ground, that there would be an earthquake and he would rise. Dust. Fire. The end of the world. They calculated the day and built churches to protect themselves.

You think those cats care? You think other animals watch each other go at it and it does something for them?___ike cat-porn.

So what about the cats?___hat about them?___he cats he killed. He killed all those cats. Dumped them in the tank.___o he didn__ like cats.___ith a slingshot.___hey were strays. Nobody missed them.___ut you don__ kill cats. That__ not normal.__ino shrugged. __ats are cats.

Cats aren__ as friendly as they appear: fur, teeth, instinct, selfishness and cunning. Essentially they__e just big rats.

At some point the body offers only disappointment.

Telling stories to make himself into something that he isn__. We all do it. We all tell stories to make ourselves look better.

You are the stories you tell, whatever their basis in fact or experience. It__ who you are.

Stories are how we connect. Evolution isn__ seriously about thumbs but about how we use language _ that__ what raises us above dumb animals, right? Language?

And then ... perhaps someone will write a book about making a film about a story that is taken from this book which is taken from a real-life story that was copied from a story in a book. You know?