instructions for a funeral.
dialogue prompts from instructions for a funeral: stories by david means.
to reckon with loss is to reckon with what hasn't been lost.
how are you feeling? what are you thinking?
let's get this started so i can get home.
you've had good luck along the way, but it was only luck.
you have to win, however you have to win.
justice doesn't seem to be factoring into it at all.
only winning makes it a good fight.
where'd you come up with a word like that?
that needs to be stitched.
keep looking. don't ever stop.
your time's not up. your time's not even close to being up.
you can only see me the way i am now.
i'm exposing myself as problematic.
if we're caught, we're caught together.
you're as kissable as you are killable.
you can't make that kind of shit up and get away with it.
i loved you like a brother.
you can't put too much of yourself in the story.
it's a feeling that never leaves you. you carry it with you for the rest of your life.
i feel completely separated from earthly reality.
that's speculation. though it makes perfectly good sense.
you were sympathetic without being judgmental.
the score between us was already even.
precise memory vaporizes when it comes into contact with cash.
i don't know the password.
i've come in search of the truth about a matter.
someone has to pay, somehow.
i didn't do anything you wouldn't do.
i'll have to kill you, if you keep talking like that.
you're a dreamer. you have stars in your eyes.
how could you dream this up?
this is a fitting place to end this thing.
you seemed like you needed help.
i'm not sure i even have words for it.
i've heard all i want to hear about _____.
have the wisdom to hold your tongue.
mutinies are out of style.
any one of us might have done the same thing.
you'll come back, won't you?
something big is coming. the wind's changed.
if you know the truth, you shoot first.
fate operates retroactively.
what can one man know about the inside of another, without making something up?
what were you thinking about out here?