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We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next.

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Isaac Marion
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: December 30
Music Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Seattle
Washington
However
Next
Matter
Matters

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I want life and in all its stupid sticky rawness.
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I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.
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I'm watching her talk. Watching her jaw move and collecting her words one by one as they spill from her lips. I don't deserve them. Her warm memories. I'd like to paint them over the bare plaster walls of my soul, but everything I paint seems to peel.
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I can’t seem to make myself care about anything to the right or left of the present.
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I used to split my time between writing, music and painting. I would work on a book and then abandon it, start a band, do an album, quit music, then do a gallery show. Eventually I decided to give writing a serious shot.
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When the entire world is built on death and horror, when existence is a constant state of panic, it's hard to get worked up about any one thing. Specific fears have become irrelevant. We've replace them with a smothering blanket far worse.
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I wince at her use of the word human. I've never liked that differentiation. She is living and I'm dead, but we're both human. Call me an idealist.
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Soft flesh is eaten by hard teeth.
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Why is it beautiful that humanity keeps coming back? So does herpes.
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You might say that death has relaxed me.
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Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory.
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Can we really choose anything?' 'Maybe. If we want to bad enough.
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I'm not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I'm just a corpse who wants not to be.
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What happened? How did I get here? How could I have known that my choices mattered?
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Stop. Breathe those useless breaths. Drop this piece of life you’re holding to your lips. Where are you? How long have you been here? Stop now. You have to stop. Squeeze shut your stinging eyes, and take another bite.
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Warm Bodies ended up becoming one of the most personal relatable things I've written.
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Here it comes. My inevitable death, ignoring me all those years when I wished for it daily, arriving only after I've decided I want to live forever.
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One mistake, one brief lapse of my new found judgement-that's all it took to unravel everything. What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature.
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How do I appear unthreatening when her lover's blood is running down my chin?
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That's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory— hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can built off our pasts and make future.
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