TEXTING MEME ⟶ WELCOME TO NIGHTVALE TWEETS ( 2013 / part one )
always feel free to tweak the sentence to fit your muse.
[ text ] –– if these walls could talk they would shout threats at you. they do not like you, for whatever reason. not one bit. what did you do?
[ text ] –– today’s bowl game features the unfurling of digestive organs into a wide-mouth, onyx pot.
[ text ] –– everything in the universe is rapidly moving apart from everything else. let’s fix this by staring into the void & stifling our screams.
[ text ] –– several small slits in the ceiling split apart to reveal bulging white and pink eyes. they look sleepy and blink a lot.
[ text ] –– reminder that the sky will not save you. the sky is not your friend. the sky is your enemy. attack the sky.
[ text ] –– all things lost, all things found. all things buried in the ground. all things high, all things low. all things, strange things: home depot.
[ text ] –– it’s 10 o’clock. do you know where your children are?
[ text ] –– before you judge a man, first try walking a mile in his underground bloodmaze.
[ text ] –– good things come to those who wait. good things come crawling down the unctuous brown stone walls to those who wait alone in the dark pit.
[ text ] –– climb every mountain, swim every river, crawl every drainpipe, and lick every grout.
[ text ] –– s/o to whatever that is that’s skittering down your neck.
[ text ] –– me: a two hundred year old skull fragment buried beneath a rotted oak. you: thousands of legs, long violet torso, contorting through my jaw.
[ text ] –– me: uncarnate, drifting between walls of a cursed, old home. you: alone in the dark, twitching your flashlight after a sudden chill.
[ text ] –– me: an idealistic but ill-thought out idea. you: its disastrous and ultimately fatal practical application.
[ text ] –– as you can see from this graph, you are now a monster. this graph is just a mirror.
[ text ] –– who are you? 90% of americans got this wrong.
[ text ] –– you say ‘to-may-to’. i say ‘poisoned to-mah-to’ quietly to myself.
[ text ] –– whistle while you work, gurgle while you sleep. shake uncontrollably and weep, banging your fists against your thighs, at all other times.
[ text ] –– there are no words, only scratches and screams shaped into softer meaning.
[ text ] –– he died doing what he loved: living in perpetual fear of death.
[ text ] –– save money on fat cat doctors and do your own surgery at home! it’s simple and easy to do if you don’t care much about failure/death!
[ text ] –– the faceless old woman who lives secretly in your home is staring out the window, pining for something. how does she stare with no face? how
[ text ] –– think before you speak. dream before you meet other people. transcend before you do laundry. dissociate before you start the car.
[ text ] –– when a door closes, a window opens. it’s a luxury feature. there are no ghosts here, ghosts aren’t a thing.
[ text ] –– the world’s deadliest spider hasn’t been discovered yet. it will be discovered after they die, when they examine the body.
[ text ] –– you searched for ‘cute cat videos’. did you mean ‘photographs of melting dolls’?
[ text ] –– who has two thumbs and is waiting in a hiding place until you go to sleep? not exactly sure, but don’t make any sudden movements.
[ text ] –– jars! they’re just like us! ( pic of organs spilling out of shattered jar across a sawdust-covered floor )
[ text ] –– do not feed the deer. they know something and are trying to die.
[ text ] –– stars, they’re just like us! mostly volatile burning lumps, noiseless in the void of space. cold and alone, dying.
[ text ] –– behind every great man there’s a sedated and engorged wolf spider, roughly the size of a spaniel puppy.
[ text ] –– they sewed shut their lips for they feared their own teeth.
[ text ] –– sometimes things are exactly what they seem. not this time, though. boy, are you going to be surprised.
[ text ] –– the future comes at you fast, but don’t worry. it’s weak and dying.
[ text ] –– lost: cat. about 32 feet long, stone, black, rectangular. no distinguishing marks. likes to hover above penitent humans, answers to intoning.
[ text ] –– a lot of things can’t be expressed in words and they’re all at your door.
[ text ] –– current weather: some kind of meat.
[ text ] –– ‘death is a meritocracy’ – optimists.
[ text ] –– love is in the air. also in the air: water particles, an unusual amount of feathers, and an odorless and invisible toxic gas.
[ text ] –– sticks and stones are my bones, and words are all imaginary.
[ text ] –– get lost in a good book. I’ve been lost in a good book for ten years now, living in a shelter of torn paper and the bones of feral letters.
[ text ] –– s/o to the blood pooling up under the front door.
[ text ] –– intrepid reporters uncover evidence that no on ever existed.
[ text ] –– make eye contact with librarians, and stand your ground. do not let them sense that you are afraid.
[ text ] –– fun science fact: if you look deep into a deer’s eyes without blinking, you become a deer. this is how they breed.
[ text ] –– current weather: irony.
[ text ] –– just noticed that horses don’t have shadows. weird.
[ text ] –– get the body you’ve always wanted. we know where it’s buried and can lend you a shovel.
[ text ] –– some mysteries, I think, are unsolvable. like, where ends the void? or, why are we here? or, what are clouds even?
[ text ] –– get whiter teeth. yes, those over there. here’s a tranquilizer and slip-joint pliers. go get them.
[ text ] –– where does the moon go? according to science, it is revolving around the earth. but scientists also claim mountains aren’t living things, so.
[ text ] –– do you ever walk into a room and then totally forget that you are just atoms and empty space? how embarrassing.
[ text ] –– if it seems too good to be true, just remember nothing’s true, even the bad stuff.
[ text ] –– fact is fiction.
[ text ] –– deer’s eyes are nature’s magic 8 ball.
[ text ] –– reminder: don’t trust the stars. they’re just long-dead ghosts twinkling their million-year-old news.
[ text ] –– stars, they’re just like us. combustible giants drifting apart until all matter burns itself into thing imperceptibility.
[ text ] –– you can’t love others until you learn that others are fictions in your head that you dreamed up, so they’re totally safe to love.
[ text ] –– you won’t sleep when you’re dead either.
[ text ] –– schools are closed today because everyone’s feeling a little sad.
[ text ] –– with a click, the stone walls drew open and light burned their eyes.
[ text ] –– trees are smarter than they seem.
[ text ] –– some clouds are water, some clouds are smoke. those clouds are spiders.
[ text ] –– one of every two thousand oranges contains an underdeveloped human heart.
[ text ] –– don’t take this the wrong way, but you are a monster and must be destroyed.
[ text ] –– what does the future hold? besides the inevitability of death, I mean.
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