Operator Speaking by Zachary Constantine
 

Posts Tagged ‘inhumanity’

If you’re into guys…

Saturday, November 6th, 2010

Addiction lets people do ugly things to themselves. Crackhead vs The Altruist Operator [Brandishing a fresh pack] Wanna cigarette? From one addict (that’s me) to another… [Desynch from trance state/boggled, realizes he is being addressed] Can you spare some change? [Takes cigarette: dirty, gnarled yellow fingernails have grown long - into claws] I like to [...]

I’ll torture you so slowly,
you’ll think it’s a career

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

Atrocitas Sui Generis The company that employed me strived only to serve up the cheapest fare that its customers would tolerate, churn it out as fast as possible, and charge as much as they could get away with. If it were possible to do so, the company would sell what all businesses of its kind [...]

Such a Beautiful Evening

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

I cannot keep it to myself – the laughter, the joy of a job well done. I yawn, staring at my reflection in a window just long enough to recognize the resemblance to a skull – there is not much left in the way of flesh. Finally becoming something, slow corporeal metamorphosis. I am become [...]