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imagine-mr-markus · 4 years

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Birthday Candles

I had to write sumn for my fave Dad on his birthday, but i got a teeeensy bit distracted watching Hellbenders so its a leedol late, sorry! But yes, here we have some tasty tasty fluff of my boys in honour of The Birthday. And not an all an apology for the fact that the next two I’m working on are just Angst of my Cyberlife Boys, absolutely not

Hank Anderson, at the ripe age of 53 and 364 days, fucking hated birthdays. Hated the smell of cake and frosting and the cheerful wishes of others. What he hated most about them, however, was the birthday candles. The smell of them, the sight of them, even the fucking mention of them was enough to sour his mood beyond recognition, no matter how good it had been before. It hadn't always been like that; in fact, it had only been like that for two years and three hundred and twenty-nine days. Twenty-five thousand, four hundred and sixteen hours. One million, five hundred and twenty-four thousand, nine hundred and sixty seconds. The calculations flash irritatingly behind his eyes like they always have, and he shakes his head as his mood dips. He knows exactly why he hates those brightly coloured little sticks of wax so vehemently.

They'd been Cole’s favourite.

It had been a kinda stupid tradition his own mother had started when he was a kid to wake him up at exactly midnight on his birthday with a cake. There would always be another cake later, one for the party and the guests, but at midnight, when the world was quiet and the lights were out, it was just for the two of them to sit and eat a slice after he'd eagerly blown out the candles. Melissa had thought it was the cutest shit to grace this earth and had insisted on carrying on the tradition after they started dating, and he could easily admit that it was appreciated. It'd been part of what kept them together in the long stretch of time when they'd nearly fallen apart after pregnancy test after pregnancy test came back negative. But no matter how bad the fight, every birthday was ushered in with birthday candles and cake at midnight. It had only gotten better after Cole was born, the joy of the new baby and their much firmer foundation on marriage making for a much more relaxed morning. As soon as Cole had seen birthday candles, he’d been enraptured in the way only a child could be, and the new tradition that Cole always helped blow out the candles was born. For a solid portion of his life, Hank’s favourite smell in the world was the smell of the sweet smoke from the vibrant little pillars of wax.

But not anymore. Not for one thousand and fifty-nine days.

In the time Connor had been living with him, two hundred and ninety-eight days, his brain helpfully supplies, he's gotten much better at dealing with problems without the use of alcohol. In fact, he hasn't had anything stronger than a beer in months. But tonight, tonight the bar looks more tempting than he'd ever care to admit. He tilts his head slightly as he eyes his keys, fingers itching to make a break for it before Connor gets home. He could do it. Could grab his keys and be out the door. Connor would be disappointed, but he'd understand. Connor was good like that. He could-

The sound of the door startles him out of his reverie, the excited tapping of big paws on the floor following soon after.

“We're home!”

Hank turns away from his keys abruptly, mustering a smile as he looks towards the Android stood in the doorway.

“Hey, Connor. How was your walk?”

The kid offers him a smile before he bends to undo Sumo’s leash.

“It was good! It's getting chilly out, but the leaves are starting to change! I like the orange ones best.”

Some of Hank’s misery eases at Connor’s easy enthusiasm, and his smile is more genuine.

“That's good. I like the orange ones too.”

He pauses a moment to gather himself, mentally flipping the bird at his cravings for booze before continuing.

“So, whaddaya want for dinner?”

Connor doesn't need to eat, but after the revolution Kamski whipped up some fancy ass robotics that allows him to if he wants. It's nice to sit and eat with somebody again, even if the kid is way too addicted to coffee now that he can taste it. Connor tilts his head as he moves towards the kitchen, an easy grin pulling at his mouth.

“Can we get Chinese?”

Hank shakes his head fondly at the kid. Another one of his favourites was Chinese takeaway, and they'd eaten it with fair regularity. Although, Hank is kinda grateful. The kid’s been trying to learn to cook, but his skills aren't…. incredibly tasty as he insists on doing it ‘the human way’. The familiarity of it all helps ease the weight on his lungs, helps pull some of the itch from his fingertips.

“Yeah, Con. We can get Chinese.”

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“Hank, wake up!”

His eyes snap open at the sound of Connor’s voice, hand going for his gun as he searches for what made the kid wake him.

“What is it? What's wrong?”

“Nothing. Happy birthday!”

He looks at Connor properly, taking in the sight of the kid grinning at him excitedly from beside his bed. He's dressed in Hank’s old clothes, a hoodie too big even for him swallowing the Android whole and pair of ratty flannel pants from Hank’s much younger days hanging off his frame. He's got flour down his front and a streak of bright blue frosting on his forehead, LED shining a bright, contented blue at his temple as his eyes sparkle with excitement in a warm, flickering light. And before he even looks down at what he's holding, Hank knows it's cake adorned with candles. He can smell it, the sugary sweetness clinging to the back of his throat and the scent of melting wax in his nose. A sharp pang of something ugly strikes at his chest, a deep hurt pulsing behind his ribs and a flare of an irrational fury between his lungs. He can feel his face twist with it, and he sees Connor’s expression fall as his LED spins yellow.

“Did…. did I do something wrong? I thought this is what family did on birthdays.”

The kid looks heartbroken at the thought that he fucked up, doe eyes falling to look at the cake as his mouth turns down like he's about to cry. The expression pulls at that softness in him he had kept buried for so long, the gentle instinct to comfort and console. It was an instinct he'd always had; part of the reason people had been surprised he'd taken the promotions from beat cop upwards when he was one of the few cops who could handle kids well. It was where he'd gotten the idea for kids of his own, and that feeling had only grown exponentially once he did have a kid. Melissa had been a great mother, but it had always been Hank who would roll out of bed whenever Cole cried in the night, and Cole had very clearly been Daddy’s Boy. Melissa used to joke that if they ever had another she had dibs, but the fact remains that Hank has always been better with kids because he's a fucking bleeding heart who can never turn down a crying child. And he may logically know that Connor is not a child, but that doesn't change the fact that with his lower lip stuck out slightly and his big brown eyes ready to fill with tears at any moment and drowning in clothes too big for him, he sure as hell looks like a little boy that's been scolded. And that sets off that tender heart of his hard enough he grimaces before what Melissa used to call the “Dad Spirit” switches on. His tone gentles out of reflex, and he adjusts himself on the bed to sit up properly as he sighs slightly. He softens his shoulders, looking at Connor earnestly with forgiveness and apology in his gaze.

“No, Connor, you didn't do anything wrong. I was upset, but not at you, alright?”

Connor blinks up at him hopefully.

“Really?”

Hank can't help the little curl of his mouth at Connor’s question, nodding a little. He's bracing himself for what comes next, but for just a second, it's alright.

“Really, kid. Now c’mere, lemme see it.”

As quick as it had gone, that unbridled excitement is shining out of the kid’s every goddamn pore as he eagerly presents the cake. Finally, Hank forced himself to look at it, and he nearly loses his goddamn mind right then and there. It's ugly, there's no getting around it, but endearingly so in that way that screams of love poured into the batter. The cake is uneven and lopsided, and smothered liberally in baby blue frosting. There are candles neatly sunk into it, and Hank knows without a doubt there are fifty-four of them arranged precisely in concentric circles. And there, in the middle, spelled out in neat lettering that he can recognise as Connor’s own personal font (though the frosting is wobbly and has been badly fixed) are the words “Happy Birthday, Dad!”. A shaky smiley face has been added beneath, and its obscenely cute. There's suddenly something in Hank’s throat. Connor has never called him Dad before, and it makes his own mouth wobble treacherously. He coughs a little before speaking, ignoring how thick his voice is.

“You make this yourself? I thought you didn't have any cooking protocols.”

Connor looks almost ridiculously proud of himself as he nods excitedly

“I did! I was tempted to download necessary coding, but I wanted to do it like a human, so I followed the recipe in the cookbook above the refrigerator! This one was labelled as your favourite!”

His mother’s cookbook. He hadn't touched it in years, and the only time Melissa had ever gone near it was for that specific recipe. The last time he'd used it, he'd been making Cole’s cake. Connor had found it, he'd made him his mother’s birthday cake, and Hank isn't crying, he isn't goddamnit-

“Hank? Are you alright?”

He clears his throat again and scrubs a hand over his face to wipe away any damning evidence.

“Yeah, Con. I'm alright, just got something in my eyes. C’mon, the candles are starting to drip onto the cake.”

He crosses his legs so there's room on the bed, and Connor moves easily to perch in front of him. It takes a second of him considering his own legs with a yellow LED before he crosses them like Hank’s, a pleased little grin turning his mouth. You wouldn't know it if you only saw him at work, but the kid was gangly and faintly awkward when it came to anything related to sitting. It had taken months for Hank to break his habit of sitting ramrod straight with his knees together and hands on his thighs. Now the kid would sprawl all over the couch, but he was still like a pubescent boy learning how to use his own limbs and how to arrange them, almost like a fawn learning to walk. It shouldn't have been as adorable as it was, but Hank has given up on trying to deny how fond he is of the kid. He shakes his head as Connor sets the cake down on the bedspread, and he stares at the cake for a long moment with a strange mixture of joy and grief and fondness and sadness in his chest like a bruise. He lets out a slow breath and looks up at Connor with a smile.

“Well? Are you gonna sing to me or not?”

Connor brightens and nods, but a brief show of yellow spins at his temple before he turns his head.

“Sumo! Come here!”

There’s a quiet boof from the living room before big paws thud towards the room, and the shaggy dog trots into the room to sit beside Connor expectantly. The kid gives the dog a fond pat before turning back towards Hank. His smile widens as he takes a deep breath, something he doesn't technically need, before he starts to sing, and Sumo awoos quietly with him in an odd harmony.

“Happy birthday to you!

Happy birthday to you!

Happy birthday dear da-ad

Happy birthday to you!”

Ok, Hank is crying. He’ll admit it. It's one thing to see it written out in the cake, it's another to actually hear Connor call him Dad. And while it's not a surprise, he's thought of Connor as family for a while now, it brings a painful lump to his throat and a feeling filling his chest to hear someone refer to him as Dad and mean it. It's a feeling he hasn't had in one thousand and sixty days, and he had missed it dearly. He scrubs at his eyes again, sniffling a little.

“C'mere, kid. Help me blow out the candles.”

Connor gives him a brilliant grin and scrambles to sit next to him, carefully manoeuvring around the cake. He picks it up to settle it on their knees, Hank’s right knee supporting the left side of the plate and Connor’s left supporting the right.

“Ready, kid?”

“Ready, dad!”

That feeling clogs his throat again for a second before he offers Connor a nod. He bends closer to the cake, and Connor follows suit as they inhale. He blows out a good chunk of them, and Connor catches the rest with ease before laughing a little. It's not exactly a new sound, but Hank feels downright fucking blessed to hear it if he's honest with himself. Connor doesn't laugh too often, not outside the house, and it still feels special to hear the kid be so human. He's still fucking crying, but they’re good tears. Cathartic is the word, he thinks. A fork is offered to him, and he takes it gratefully. The hurt weighing on him hasn't gone away, he doesn’t think it ever will, but it's shifted, moved some, become lighter, and he rolls his shoulders back slightly as he sits up a little straighter. He's moving to take a bit of the cake when Connor gasps beside him, and he turns with a raised eyebrow.

“What is it?”

“I almost forgot!”

The kid plunges his hand into his pocket, pulling out a very familiar, very worn old Polaroid camera. Hank blinks at it, taken aback. He hadn't known he'd still had that around the house.

“The fuck you find that thing?”

Connor beams at him.

“In the boxes in the garage, along with the photo albums! They were shoved in the back, but I found them while I was cleaning over the summer. It's where I got the idea to make you cake!”

There's that funny rolling in his stomach again, like overwhelming happiness and sadness mixing like oil and water in a shaking bottle. But it's… it's good. Like the tears. Cathartic. He nods, gesturing with the fork.

“Alright, well let's get this show on the road. I wanna eat my cake.”

Connor laughs again, and Hank grins at him as he slings his own arm over the kid’s shoulder to bring him closer as he raised the camera.

“Sumo! Come get in the photo!”

The dog bounds easily up onto the bed, big head bumping at Connor’s forehead as he sniffles at the frosting there. Hank chuckles and shakes his head as he looks at the camera, making sure the text on the cake is visible as Connor presses the button. The flash is temporarily blinding, but he blinks it away as the camera spits out the sheet of thick film. Hank doesn't shake it like his mother used to, he knows better than that. He wants this one pristine if he can help it, especially because he's going to want copies of this shit. Eventually, maybe soon, maybe not, he'll stick it in the photo albums Connor found. The ones he hasn't had the guts to look at for years. But maybe…. maybe with Connor sitting next to him, he can focus on the good times as he tells him the stories about the photos. The kid is still pressed firmly into his side from Hank’s arm around his shoulders, and it's a good feeling, to sit beside someone. No, not just someone. His son. He knows Cole is never coming back, his little boy is gone, but maybe someday he'll see him again. And with any luck, he'll get to introduce him to his older brother. Well, younger brother? It's a comforting, if slightly confusing thought, and Hank grins as he transfers his fork to his other hand so he can keep Connor close while he digs into his birthday cake. The photo develops a little while later, and Hank loves it. You can see that he's been crying, but his smile is easy, and Connor has his nose scrunched up as Sumo licks his forehead, and the cake looks even uglier in the flash from the camera and it's absolutely perfect. He’s gonna need a copy for his wallet AND his desk, goddamnit, and he might even feel brave enough to put one of his pictures of Cole beside it. It's only right that both of his boys be present, really.

The smell of sweet candle smoke is heavy in the air, and he breathes it in. He can see Cole as he was the last time they celebrated together, green eyes sparkling and one of his front teeth missing from his broad smile as he shouted in the dark.

“Happy birthday, dad!”

Connor’s voice comes from beside him, and he turns to look at the kid as he smiles.

“Happy birthday, dad.”

He leans against Connor slightly, squeezing him gently.

“Thanks, son. I'm glad you decided to celebrate with me.”

And he means it.

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At the age of fifty-four years and one hour, Hank Anderson loves birthdays. He loves the birthday cake that's lopsided and the too thick layer of frosting and the cheerful wishes of the Android beside him. And most of all, he loves his favourite scent in the world.

Birthday candles.

#Happy Birthday Hank you grimy bitch!!! ily #DBH #dbh hank #hank anderson #dbh connor #dbh Sumo

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mattpeplow · 4 years

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Tempting Tincas

The tiny red tip of the float sat motionless in the gentle sway of the still water, anchored to the bottom with two BB shots. The float may not be the correct colour to grant the best visibility. There may be slightly too little or too much of it showing from your added shot, but you can see it, and that’s all that matters. All you want as you sit there, transfixed with anticipation, is for that pimple of colour to disappear, which it surely will. The yearning and the craving for a take and a squirming fight is like a drug. You could easily describe most fisherman as addicts, or dreamers in need of their next fix. It is an extremely strong addiction made up of potential new records be it British, world or personal, or just the knowledge that you are doing everything right and the hard work and preparation has paid off. The pride in catching a beautiful trout on a fly that you created yourself. Or just the peace a solitude of not having to worry about the daily grind, your only concern when on the bank is whether it’s going to rain or not. I confess I am an addict and there is no amount of cold turkey that can cure me, and to be honest, I don’t want to be cured.

The sun was beating down and my polarised glasses cut through the water to show a few dark shadows lurking below, sifting through my grounbait for more substantial offerings. Today’s location is Mythe, a private club water controlled by The Birmingham Anglers Association (BAA). At around 600 meters long and as wide as the River Severn which runs along its one side it is one of my favourite venues. The hot sun of the warmer months causes a large amount of weed to grow here which means only half of the pegs are fishable at certain times on the year. The riverside bank is a jungle, imagine an untrodden terrain with thick overgrown bushes, steep slopes, ditches and barbed wire making their upmost effort to bar your progress. If you do venture this way though, you will probably end up with a few leaves and twigs in your hair and down your collar and maybe a rip in your favourite fishing t- shirt however you will find some of the most beautiful swims from which you can temp a few bites. A fellow angler and good friend of mine Rich has spent countless hours secateurs in hand carving pathways to the waters edge. Rich is a font of knowledge when it comes to Mythe and he often regales me with tales of his trips 30 years earlier when all the pegs where fishable, he is an in-depth encyclopaedia of every peg on the pool and has a story to tell for practically all of them.

Clear spots can be found in amongst the thick weed and most the pegs have a patch of lilies or a deep hole in which to place your bait. Bream are in abundance here with weights of over 100lb regularly being caught on the method or open-ended feeder. Large bags of fish are also caught on the pole or waggler however, this being my chosen method for the day. Carp are a rarity as they are not targeted very often, but the few photographs I have seen of these old warriors show beautiful dark oak coloured mirrors with apple slice scales and striking bronze commons. Rich also tells me of an orange bellied common which has evaded capture for a long time, he has sent me many videos of fish close to 30lb taking floating dog biscuits from one of his many walks around the pool fish spotting. I have also heard rumours of an elusive Catfish hiding somewhere amongst the gloomy depths but who knows, this pool seems to be a bit of a mystery and I don’t think anyone knows for certain what zoo creatures it could hold. Catching one of these legends is on my bucket list, however today I am here targeting Tench, one of my favourite species.

I have selected a peg with a thick blanket of weed framing a deep weed less hole with lilies at my feet and to my left. The water is crystal clear gradually gaining a green hue the further out you look out towards the centre of the lake. After laying a few balls of gound-bait and a scattering of sweetcorn next to the lilies I lowered my lobworm and tightened my line pulling my float to where red meets black. I am fishing the lift method; my float is held in place by two rubber stops and is set at between 5 and 10 inches over depth with shot on the bottom. I pinch my shots onto a small piece of braid threaded onto my line using a rig ring. This is also held in place with rubber stops. Doing this means there is no weaknesses in your set up, some split shots have sharp edges and squeezed directly onto your line can cut into it and cause breakages under pressure. When the Tench takes my bait and lifts the shot off the lake bed the float will rise up and lay flat, however it is suggested to strike before it reaches that point.

Though still water specimen hunting is predominantly based around bolt rigs and buzzers there is a period generally from mid-May where this more traditional method for catching Tench is particularly effective. The warmer temperatures and longer days cause the Tincas to move in to the margins in search of damsel fly nymphs and other immerging insects and fishing at such close quarters the bolt rig loses its impact and a float fished correctly will produce a lot more fish.

I hadn’t arrived early for today’s session. A few beers the night before in the local pub had cause me to oversleep slightly but I didn’t mind as it was summer with plenty of daylight ahead of me. I had got to the lake at around 9am and had chosen my peg and set up for half past. My first bight came 10 minutes later. It was slow and tentative. The float lifted a centimetre and settled again, half a second later it did the same and started creeping slowly to the left. I strike into a small greedy Perch half the length of my lobworm. Returned, rebaited and repositioned I waited once more.

The sun had decided to hide for a while behind a thick white cloud. Thankfully not the thick black kind as I hadn’t even considered bringing my umbrella, not in mid-June. I always travel quite light when I am not targeting Carp. A decent sized bream was my next piece of the action, around the 4lb mark. A slow short fight then like a wet flannel it floated to the surface and was dragged motionless towards the bank. A few of these in the keepnet wouldn’t be a bad result for the day but sadly it was not the prize I was after. Unlike some anglers I appreciate caching bream. A large shoal of bin lids in your swim can make for a great day, especially in match fishing where large weights can be obtained quickly once you have got them feeding, which doesn’t seem to take long, these fish are eating machines and will make short work of a large bed of bait.

By mid-day the temperature cooled a little; it was still warm but not the blistering heat of the past couple of days. A scattering of clouds and a slight breeze made it very comfortable with intermittent blasts of sunshine and shade. I think if the weather had been the same as earlier in the week the fishing would have been very hard. This was proved a few days later when a session with my dad was cut short due to only two bites between us in 5 hours of fishing in relentless heat, we were rewarded with 2 small Roach and two rather sunburnt faces.

Instead the bites were steady and with five perch in the keepnet and a few more bream I decided to mix it up a little and try a cocktail. A lobworm tail with two grains of corn on a size twelve hook. I sat watching the float twitch, bob, dip and sway for a about twenty minutes, there were a lot of small fish in the swim and I think my large bait was being picked up and dropped every couple of seconds by optimistic roach with mouths too small to take bait fully.

Finally, it lifted, this happened so quickly it was almost flat before I had chance to strike. Strike into weightless, air, weightless, nothing. “Bugger it”. It seems that I drifted into a daydream for a while easy to do when sat in the sunshine. I rebaited my hook and recast to the same spot and tightened up, determined not to lose concentration this time. I didn’t have to wait very long for another take and this time I didn’t miss it, my rod bent double and my 4lb line groaned and creaked painfully and my clutch hissed like and angry cat as the fish pushed itself into the weed in front of me. I managed to bully it back into open water and after a taxing battle I finally saw the olive-green shape and red eye break the surface. A few small final breaks for freedom and she gave in and slid into the web of my landing net. What a flawless specimen. A plump almond shaped body, black fins and a wide paintbrush like tale. Tipping the scales to 4lb 8oz I was pleased with my first Mythe Tench and what a beauty.

The next half an hour or so produced a few more Perch and Bream followed by another characteristic Tinca bite, my float raised out if the water and I lifted into another powerful creature. A lot of head shaking and dives to the weed almost confirmed to me this was another Tench. After a couple of minutes, the shaking stopped and I was left with a solid weight and no movement. The fish had hidden itself deep within the weed bed opposite. Doubtful, I lowered my rod pleading that it will release itself on its own with the line being slack. To my surprise and relief, I saw the line start to move. I tightened up to feel the relentless pulling once more. It seems the fishing gods are on my side today. The fish broke the surface and displayed itself for the first time. It was certainly a Tench but this one was unlike any I have caught previously. It had the typical bright red eyes and dark paddle like fins but its body was as black as coal. Securely in the net I admired its beauty and prepared the fish for its Photo shoot. What a beauty, and a lucky capture I think, that fish could have easily been lost. Returned safely it was time to pack up. I emptied my keepnet of 7 Bream and laid it out on the bank to dry, content with a successful day.

#fishing #carpfishing #fisherman #outdoors #nature #lovelife #passion #catchandrelease #uk fishing #line breakers carp #shimano

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threadoftheinfinite · 6 years

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Ottessa Moshfegh, PR, Depression, and the Aesthetics of Antipathy

You have probably seen the jacket cover to Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation by now. It is a very striking cover that is part of a well-engineered overall PR campaign. Electric pink font plastered over a dreamy reproduction of Jacques-Louis David’s 1798 painting, Portrait of a Young Woman in White. The Cut, New Yorker, Bookforum, Paris Review, Granta, Pushcart everyone promoted Moshfegh and this title.

Ultimately though, I put up the ridiculous sum of 28 dollars and change for Moshfegh’s book for what it promised inside. It promised to let me feel in literary form the peculiar species of depression the twenty-first century has wrought on young upper-middle-class, college-educated women. It promised to put in narrative detail what I already knew all too well: that myself and almost every all women I know in my generation have each and all suffered loss -- loss of a parent, a friend, a career, of some expectation we once held for ourselves-- and, too, that we all have, in turn, made ourselves suffer for this real or imaginary loss. We have all felt the pull of temptation to retreat from the world in the face of loss -- the desire descend into a deep, awful, alienating, self-protective, just-let-me-sleep depression. My Year of Rest and Relaxation appeared as the adventure that would indulge this desire to retreat and also functioned as proof that, in the face of depression and loss, there remained in all of us a hunger for something more than what the world, the entertainment industry, the pharmaceutical industry has to offer us to placate our hurt. We all want something more than pills, more than doctors, more than serial TV, rom-coms, or sex. We want a real art of depression, an art that details, that elevates, that immortalizes our boring, banal, stupid, narcissistic, and privileged brand of late capitalist depression.

Moshfegh was hailed as the the writer who not only could write this depression well, but mock it, show its perversity, and allow us enjoy our smallness and weakness perversely. The joke is always on us. Her writerly confidence oozes in interviews. She’s thinks she is greatest living writer. She loves to write--she has no regrets about her career. Not an ounce of depression here. Not a tad of anxiety. She knows how to write books that will sell. She gets high off her writing. Its that good. She will win all the prizes and the residencies.

Moshfegh’s arrogance is clearly itself a sickness, a symptom of late late capitalist American decadence -- but it looks good on her. One feels that we need more swagger from women POC in literary culture. It feels like a triumph to talk about the novel with Moshfegh in the #metoo era of Trump.

Unfortunately, My Year of Rest and Relaxation lives up to Moshfegh’s promise: she can and will write a bestseller; it will be cheap, formulaic, and easy to market and sell; it will target you and you will buy it. Here is what she gives us:

The year is pre-9/11 2000. The city pre-9/11 cultural capital of American finance empire: New York. Our protagonist is a rich, white, and orphaned. She is a recent graduate from Columbia (BA Art history). We never learn her name, the whole book is spoken in first person. She lives alone on the Upper East Side in an indulgent one bedroom apartment and is rich enough to have a doorman and buy designer clothes. She doesn’t really care about the clothes, though. Her parents died while she was in college. Her father first to cancer, her mother after to drugs and alcohol. They left her their house and some money. She pays her rent with the money she makes renting their house in the suburbs. The plot revolves around her life and her depression in these twelve months. We are with her in the mundane everyday shuffle back and forth from her couch to the bodega on the corner. Here, she buys her coffees from “the Egyptians” (always two: one to chug in the elevator on the way back to her apartment, the other to microwave later and drink throughout the day), her klondike bars, her skittles, her pints of ice cream.

There’s very few people in her life. She has one friend from college, Reva, and a boy named Trevor who she used to fuck that she’s still in contact with and occasionally calls. Reva comes over unannounced weekly. She is the only person who calls and checks in. Reva is bulimic, obsessed with her weight, and fucking her boss, Ken. Reva’s mom is dying of cancer on Long Island.

We go with the narrator to the pharmacy to pick up pills and to the psychiatrist’s office , Dr. Tuttle, once a month, to get her scripts refilled. The book is an account of this small life and a record of our protagonist’s distain for the world, her desire to drug herself out of it, to watch Tom Hanks and Whoopi Goldberg movies and to be left alone. The whole thing reads like Jean Rhys plot, if Jean Rhys’s protagonists did not have to suffer the indignity of working as store clerks for money, being poor or on the down and out in Paris, or selling themselves to men for a drink or a dinner out.

The central message of My Year of Rest and Relaxation seems to be this: if you are rich enough, privileged enough, pretty enough, bored and depressed and disgusted enough with the world, you can sleep through your life and no one will really care. The world turns on. Your irrelevance is especially true if your parents die or if they never really loved you at all. Without living or loving parents, without bosses who care about you, without mentors, without bright career futures or special talents, without a partner, without investments, without a desire to make or a need to make money, who or what says we have to get out of bed at all in late capitalism? Who or what really enforces anything in our social world? What sets desire in motion? So long as you can pay the rent and the bills, who says you ever need to get off your couch and participate in the world? If you adopt a simple attitude, i.e. that the world is mostly pain and fallen and diseased, you can live out your live in a moral-judgmental slumber, and no one will notice or care. All of your needs, under the right conditions, can and will be taken care of.

The novel is a meant as a satire but Moshfegh also expends a tremendous amount of energy building empathy for her otherwise pitiable, selfish, drug-addicted, depressed narrator. In giving the narrator special victim status as orphan, in casting her world under the shadow of grief, in depicting her as damaged and mean because her mother was mean and damaged, Moshfegh encourages readers to see the narrator’s actions (her drug use, her cynicism, her callousness, her death-drive) as symptoms and products of the world that produced her as a person. This is a strange moral choice. We learn of the narrator’s parents’ loveless marriage, her brief and somewhat meaningful but ultimately pointless education in art history (she found the real art world to be capitalist, stupid, and vain). We see that she has been abused by men, and basically has never found a meaningful relationship to the world in work, friendship, or love. This woman who has never experienced love, or only experienced it in fucked up, brief, sadistic ways, how could we ever expect her to be whole?

The service industry emerges to fill the love-void (women services like waxing manicures, colonics, massages, but also the general service industry of the city, its restaurants, bars, taxis, bodegas, department stores, entertainment). These services keep us afloat, they make our narrator feel slightly more alive, get her out of the house, give her contact with other humans. They allow her to interact, transact, to use people and be used. Its an empty, stupid, cycle, of services, but anyone with expendable income who has lived in a city knows it well, knows it can be a comfort.

The most moving moment in MYRR is when the narrator opens up about her father’s death, the memory of his final hours, and the things she said to him in those hours. MYRR is hardly about rest or relaxation. Its far more about death, loss, grief, and the trauma of squandering your life. In the end, what the book shows is that you can’t survive or subsist without the economy of love, compassion, and sympathy. To live well, whether we like it or not, we have to love and be loved. These are the rules of the game. We can, like our protagonist, try to subsist on memories of love squandered, to avoid love and loving in fear of being hurt, we can try to subsist on ghostly love, on the images of love that could have been but never was, on movie love, but that is depression. If we are live in this way, on love reduced, if we recognize this way of being in ourselves, its time to change our lives and find ways to live again.

We shouldn’t have novels appearing like this. Novels where the service industry appears as the most loving touch in our social world. Where we recognize that as a truth. Or else, we should just understand our society as one of services for sale. And figure out how to get into that business. This is exactly what Moshfegh has done.

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Signed in Black- Part 1

Pairing: Yoongi x Reader

Genre: Soulmate!AU, BadBoy!AU, FLUFF, Smut [in future chapters]

Summary: Min Yoongi. That was the name magically tattooed to your skin. You were told he was your lover by fate. And as cute as it would be to have a soulmate, Yoongi was the last person you ever wanted to be bound to. But thankfully, there was a way to remove the tattoo. All you had to do was convince six Bulletproof Fairies that the two of you were in love.

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You stacked the dishes, wiped up the coffee rings and crumbs, and pushed the chairs in before collecting money from the table. Beneath the receipt was a note with a rather sloppy folding job. As soon as you opened it and read its contents, you threw it into the empty coffee mug with a chuckle. Phone number #6 of the day—not that you were keeping count just for the shits and giggles. You were just waiting to see how many numbers it took before you finally found the one. Like a soulmate or something cool like that.

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Well, maybe no one except for the cute brown haired boy who always ordered his favorite white mocha and sat at the same booth each morning. He’d sit around for hours, working on what you assumed was homework or other papers, and occasionally took breaks to glance up and smile at you for more coffee. The two of you never really chatted, but you loved the gentleness that came from his eyesmile and giggle. If there was one customer you wouldn’t mind getting a phone number from, it was that boy. And part of you was a little surprised that he hadn’t made a move yet. Maybe he was already taken, or maybe he was waiting for his soulmate as well.

“Hey, can I order now?” A low, raspy voice snapped you out of your daze. You turned your head back to the customer sitting at the table in front of you. You didn’t recognize that pale skin, or the black hair that peek out beneath his snapback, or the fresh scent of rose cologne. He was a new one. He leaned his cheek against his hand and pursed his lips together just a bit. His other hand rested on the table, his long veiny fingers tapping to a soft rhythm. His dark eyes looked right at you before shifting towards the direction of the brown-haired boy. “Or are you too distracted by that cute gentleman over there?” he smirked.

You didn’t know what to say, but you certainly didn’t like that he had the audacity to call you out. So what if you thought the brown-haired boy was cute?? It wasn’t like you were having dirty thoughts about him… And even if you were having dirty thoughts, it wasn’t like anything would actually happen.

“I want your attention, too, you know,” he pouted. He was really testing your patience, but you had to admit, his adorable pouty lips were distracting you from getting mad.

“Okay, what do you want?” You clicked your pen, ready to take his order, doing your best to ignore his kind of handsome face.

“An Americano, please,” he yawned. As you wrote down his order, he took out his phone and offered it to you. “And your number.”

You stared at the boy. And then at the phone. And then back at the boy, asking yourself if he was leaving a mark on you. You’d be lying if you said he wasn’t leaving any sort of impression, but it wasn’t a really good one either. Sure he was attractive and his voice was really sexy and he had a nice flowery scent, but something about him was trouble. And you knew it.

You gently pushed the phone back, brushing the tips of your fingers against his cold, pale ones. “If you really wanna see me that badly, come back here again for another Americano.” You only gave him a playful smile before walking away to make his coffee. He just sat there with stunned puppy eyes, even chuckling to himself out of disbelief.

As you stood in front of the expresso machine, you kept an eye on the boy from afar. He leaned back in his seat with his earbuds in, and began texting away on his phone. You didn’t see even a hint of annoyance or salt seeping from his pores despite the fact that you had just refused to give him your number. His baby-smooth skin just glowed as he stared at the phone screen. And for a second, it was kind of cute. His head turned suddenly and he peeked at you for a long while. You turned your back to him to grab a saucer and spoon, although you were really just trying to shake off his stare.

“Here’s your Americano,” you spoke softly, setting the drink down on the table while trying to avoid anymore eye contact.

“Thanks.” He looked up at you and pressed his lips together, although it looked like he still had more to say.

So you waited and raised an eyebrow at him, prompting him to spit it out. “Yes?”

“So if I come back tomorrow, you’ll really give me your number?” He wrapped his long fingers around the mug and took a sip of his coffee. His eyes widened as he licked his lips and stared deep into his mug. You knew that look—the look of a caffeine addict. “This is really good, by the way. Can you make me another one tomorrow?”

“Of course I’ll make you another one,” you blushed. You’d never admit it, but you loved being praised for your barista skills. Especially when the compliment came from a coffee lover. “But you have to quit asking for my number~”

He paused for a moment to think, and then nodded. “Deal.”

“I’ll be waiting for you tomorrow then~” you giggled at how serious the boy looked. A part of you knew not to expect a sweet-talker like him to actually show up the next day, but on the off-chance that he did come back to see you, maybe that meant he really was the one you’d be searching for.

Maybe, you thought to yourself as you cleared his table just after he left the shop. But of course, right next to the money and bill was a neatly folded note. The boy must’ve found the loophole in your agreement—rather than get your number, he’d just give you his. And as much as you didn’t want to be tempted to message him, your fingers had already begun unfolding the note.

But to your surprise, it wasn’t his number that he had left.

“Sorry, Sweetheart. Turns out I’ve got another date planned for tomorrow. I’ll have to take a rain check on that Americano ♥” The only thing that bothered you more than the cute little heart at the end was the way he signed his name in some fancy cursive shit. Min Yoongi.

You let out a loud groan as you crumpled up the note. No, he definitely was not your soulmate. You didn’t want a player like that. Never. You couldn't believe you wasted even a second on someone like that. Bye bitch.

“The two of you would be cute together,” a soft, angelic voice called out to you. You perked up and turned around, realizing it was the same voice that always spoke “white mocha please~”.

“Who?” You tilted your head as you walked up to the brown-haired cutie. “Certainly not me and this asshole, right?” You held up the crumpled note and set it down on the table.

“Why not?” the cutie giggled, unleashing that signature eyesmile of his. Your heart almost melted into a puddle of feelings. “I think you’d compliment him well.” They always say opposites attract, but you questioned the cutie’s judgment on this one.

“He’s just not my type.” In fact, he was the exact opposite of your type. Your type was the giggly cutie sitting right in front of you, but that Min Yoongi guy was more than likely a devil. Or at least you liked to think so.

“Fair enough.” With a slow nod, the cutie got up and placed the money gently into your palm. “Well, I just realized I have a lot of work to do when I get home, haha. Thanks for the mocha, Y/N. It was delicious as always~” He knew your name. The cute brown-haired boy knew your name. He must’ve picked it up after all this time from whenever your co-workers called out to you. But regardless, he knew your name, even if you still didn’t know his.

Although the note from Yoongi had left you feeling shitty and a bit foolish, you woke up the next morning a lot more refreshed than expected. It had to be because of that brown-haired cutie. Even that short chat with him was enough to get your heart racing. You made a mental note to get his name next time and perhaps strike up another conversation with him. You were tired of waiting for your soulmate. Hell, it was time for you to stop believing in all that horoscope crap.

You dug around your drawers for your cutest work-appropriate clothes and threw them onto your bed as you stripped out of your pajamas. Just as you were about to pull your black sweater over your head, something dark on your ribs caught your eye in the mirror. It was probably just a bruise from work. But the closer you came to the mirror, the more the mark resembled something written in sharpie. You almost fell to the floor when you finally made out what the mark was. It might’ve been five in the morning, but you were pretty sure you weren’t hallucinating when you saw the name of your new enemy written on your skin. min yoongi. All lower-case, right on your ribs in that fancy black cursive font. But the worst part? The I’s were dotted with hearts.

You ran to your bathroom for a quick shower in hopes that water and soap would be enough to get the ugly name off your precious skin. You scrubbed and scrubbed for twenty minutes while simultaneously cursing out the boy, but the name wouldn’t budge at all. There wasn’t even a smudge. Rather than simply writing in sharpie, it was more like someone had tattooed you in your sleep. But if that were the case, wouldn’t your skin still be sore? And what kind of crazy, sick person would break into your home in the middle of the night to give you a tattoo anyway?

Still unsure as to what the fuck was going on, you ran a finger over the name, following every loop and curve of each letter. Min Yoongi’s mark was literally left on you. And everything in you prayed it wasn’t what you thought it meant.

Surprisingly, you somehow managed to arrive at work on time, although you had to sacrifice looking cute in order to do so. You only had time to twist your hair up in a messy bun and to slap on a bit of moisturizer as opposed to your usual twenty-step makeup routine. But it would have to do.

As you opened the shop and did the usual preparations, you waited for the first customers to arrive. And luckily for you, the first customer of the day was the one person you were hoping to see. If you had to wait any longer, you might’ve lashed out at someone else.

“Surprise,” Yoongi walked up to the counter and waved. Surely he came because of the whole tattoo thing. “I cancelled my date because I wanted to see you, Sweetie.” As much as you would’ve loved to believe his words, the nice hickey that bruised his otherwise perfect skin was more than enough to keep you angry at him.

“Really? Because I wanted to see you too, Sweetie,” you spat. “Now explain what the fuck is going on.”

Yoongi sighed and ran his fingers through his dark hair. “It was just sex, you know. And in my defense, you didn’t wanna give me your number so-”

“No! Not that!!” You poked him in the ribs. The last thing you wanted to hear about was him in bed with someone else. “I meant about the tattoo??”

“Tattoo?” He tilted his head like a lost puppy. “Listen, I really don’t know what the fuck-”

You grabbed his sleeve and dragged him into the staff bathroom, locking the door behind you. The boy smirked as you took the hem of your sweater into your hand and lifted it to expose your stomach and ribs. His expression only changed when he saw his name written across your skin.

“Didn’t anyone ever tell you not to get a tattoo of your lover’s name?” he laughed. “Tattoos are forever. Love isn’t.”

“Okay, first of all, you’re not my lover!” You poked him in the ribs again. “And second, you really don’t know anything about this tattoo?”

He only shook his head with a slightly pouty lip. And for a second, the two of you stared at each other in total confusion. Until a thought finally occurred to you.

“Take your shirt off.” You tugged at the hem of the Yoongi’s shirt.

“Okay listen, as much as I’d love have a quickie here, I’d much rather have that Americano you promised and-”

“Be quiet, will ya?” you groaned, lifting his shirt up. And there it was. Right next to the bruise where you had poked him too many times was your name. Your name signed in black to match the one you had perfectly.

“L/N… Y/N…? Is that you?” Yoongi looked down at his ribs and shooed your fingers away. “Oh, is that why I got slapped this morning?”

Suddenly, sparkles engulfed you and the boy until your surroundings completely changed. You were not longer in the coffee shop bathroom. Actually, you weren’t quite sure where you were. The walls were baby pink, the carpet had a pastel heart pattern, and rose petals were scattered everywhere. The furniture was all red and heart-shaped as well. It looked like Cupid did some shopping at Ikea, to be honest.

And then you noticed six sparkly boys staring down at you from their giant conference table. One of the faces, however, you recognized right away—it was the white mocha cutie. He gave you a small wave and that adorable eyesmile before one of the other boys spoke.

“Ah, Y/N and Yoongi, perfect timing.” The dimpled one with gelled back hair gestured to the two seats in front of him. “Please, have a seat.”

“Umm, who are you?” you asked the sparkly man. You and Yoongi nearly got into a fight when the two of you reached for the same seat, but luckily you won and stuck your tongue out at the boy when he had to sit in the other chair.

“I’m Namjoon, and this is the Bulletproof Fairy Council.” He gave you and Yoongi a warm smile. “Our job is to test the love between two soulmates.”

You choked on your own spit. “Wait, you guys are fairies? Is that why you’re all sparkly and stuff?”

Yoongi turned and gave you a look. “That’s what you care about right now?”

“Shut up! I don’t wanna hear that from you, Mr. All I Want To Do Is Have Sex.” The two of you glared at each other. The only thing that stopped you from pouncing was the muscular bunny boy that jumped in between you and Yoongi.

“Uh, Jimin… Are you sure you got the right ones?” The fairies began whispering to each other, still loud enough for everyone in the room to hear.

“It’s fine, Seokjin~” The brown haired cutie hummed. “Don’t you guys know love when you see it?”

“Jimin, you’re fucking blind.”

“Shh, Hoseok be nice to him... He’s new, remember?”

“Okay, but it’s pretty obvious that these two fucking hate each other.”

“Can we just burn their contracts right now while Namjoon’s not looking?”

“I can hear you, Taehyung.”

“UM. Hi, so what’s this about love and soulmates and shit?” Yoongi interrupted the whispering amongst the fairies.

“You guys are soulmates,” Bunny Boy said. “Like the romantic kind.”

“No we aren’t!” you and Yoongi shouted in unison. A vein popped on Bunny Boy’s forehead as he nearly stabbed a hole through his cheek with his tongue.

Namjoon’s eyes widened as he rubbed his temples, realizing what a mess everything was. “Yes you are. The tattoos serve as a contract that links your souls together. Whether you like it or not, the two of you are fated lovers.”

“What? Lovers? I don’t love this thing.” You pointed at Yoongi, who was ready to bite your finger off. “Is there a way to get the tattoos removed?”

All of the fairies nodded at once, but no one spoke.

“How?” Yoongi gritted his teeth.

With a sigh, Namjoon finally spoke. “If all six of us believe the two of you are truly in love with each other, the tattoos will be removed. But that’s the only way.” All of the other fairies besides Jimin laughed nervously, because they knew how this story would likely end up.

You couldn’t believe it. You were really going to be stuck with Min fucking Yoongi’s name tainting your skin for the rest of your life. There was no way you’d ever find love now. Not with that little shit’s name haunting you every time you took off your shirt.

“Okay,” Yoongi nodded calmly. “So you guys’ll be keeping an eye on us or something?”

“Yep, our fairy eyes see everything,” Bunny Boy smirked. “Except for what happens in the bedroom, of course.”

Great. First you woke up with an asshole’s name on your skin. Then you were told the two of you were soulmates. And now you were going to be stalked by a group of fairies. You didn’t sign up for this shit.

“And that’s about it for the explanation,” Namjoon said, regaining his composure. “If you have any questions, feel free to ask any one of us. I’m sure you’ll be seeing us around a lot from now on.”

“But!” Before you could finish protesting, you and Yoongi were teleported back to the bathroom with pixie dust in the air. Luckily, you landed right on top of the boy to cushion your fall. But just then, the door opened.

You jumped off of the boy and stared up at your boss with panic-filled eyes. “S-sorry, we were just-”

“It’s my fault. I asked Y/N for a quickie and-” Yoongi tried to help the situation, but you kind of wanted him to just shut the fuck up.

“You guys were in here for an hour.”

Yoongi froze for a moment. “Anyway, I’ll see you after work, Babe~” He blew you a half-assed kiss before fleeing the scene.

As soon as the boy shimmied his ass out of the shop, your boss began asking the real questions. “Who was that?”

Before you could answer, you saw the brown haired cutie, Jimin the Bulletproof Fairy, taking a sip of his white mocha in the corner of your eye. And that’s when you understood why Yoongi had acted all lovey-dovey all of a sudden. If the two of you wanted to ever get rid of the tattoos, you were going to have to fake your love until all of those fairies believed it.

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The Bottle that Turned Me

Passion for wine, unsurprisingly, begins with a bottle. Much like we all remember our first love, we all remember the bottle of wine that truly changed our perception of the beverage. Also like romance, a great bottle can strike at any time. Growing up in Northern California, wine had always been around me, and my first adventures in drinking involved Charles Shaw. Yet, it was years before it became my beverage of choice. In college, I drank mostly beer, and then moved on to the macho allure of Kentucky Bourbon. Still, my work in the restaurant industry maintained a relationship with wine, and my love of beverages in general meant I had a (very) basic understanding of it’s history and importance in the world of fermenting and distilling. Last summer I was lucky enough to begin working at a beautiful new farm-to-table restaurant with a serious wine program. Although located in the famously laid back town of Woodstock, NY, Silvia was anything but relaxed. Every shift involved an intricate and in depth pre-shift, where we tasted new menu items, discussed the geographic origins of the meats and cheeses, and, occasionally, had wine classes. The director of their wine program is Sommelier Alison Berlin, a firm believer that wine begins with the grape and terroir. Her expertise, although at first intimidating, also offered a berth of knowledge. Alison discussed wine in a way I previously thought reserved for music or literature; that unique blend of curiosity, knowledge, and reverence. Alison’s classes were primarily meant to educate the staff to help improve sales. We were not expected to understand carbonic maceration or memorize sub-appelations, but it would no doubt be helpful to understand the power of location on wine and some of the key points when discussing popular and often misunderstood wines, such as Riesling. One of Alison’s biggest focuses was the importance of terroir (a difficult to translate word that basically comprises all of the natural factors affecting a grape: the soil, the sunlight, the weather) on a wine. To illustrate this we tasted two bottles of Cabernet Franc, one from Chinon in the Loire, and another made from grapes grown in the Santa Cruz mountains of California. At this point it should be noted that I grew up in the Bay Area, and throughout high school and college somehow managed to spend significant time in almost all of California’s major wine regions, including Santa Cruz. I should perhaps also mention that my dad grew up in Sonoma County, and I spent many weekends at Grandma’s house in Santa Rosa. My ties to the region and California as a whole are not insignificant, and I consider the entire state worthy of the word ‘home’. We tasted the Chinon first. It was explained that it was an ‘old-world’ style (basically meaning it was from Europe), and we were given a chance to express any thoughts we had about the aroma or taste. Frankly, I don’t remember much about that wine at all. Part of this is due to arrogance, I definitely was convinced any future I had in beverage would be through whiskey. Part of this is also due to the fact that I don’t think it was a very interesting wine. Delicious and drinkable, I’m sure, and probably doing exactly what Alison intended it to do. At the time, not something I would think too much about. We dumped our glasses and Alison began to pour the second bottle. It had a very Californian label, a stark white with a line drawing of coastal mountains and a sans-serif font reading METHODE SAUVAGE. It was explained that the wine maker, Chad Hinds, was bringing Cab Franc clones from France and planting them in various regions across California to explore the affects of terroir on the grape. I smelled the wine, and was immediately intrigued. It smelled dirty, musky, and wet, what Alison would call ‘Forest Floor’. We sipped, and the dirty feeling continued, but also gave way to dark fruits and spices. It was the aftertaste, the finish, that truly floored me. The flavor was a blend of black cherry and what my friend Lindsey called “Savory marzipan,” and for a moment, an extremely clear moment, I felt like I was 3,000 miles away in my late grandmother’s condominium. My grandmother never served me marzipan, or kept cherries around the house. The flavors I associate with her are fried chicken, roast beef, and Kraft grilled cheese. She also wasn’t a wine aficionado. Although it was her drink of choice, she wasn’t in a financial position to be purchasing the finer side of the Dry Creek Road. She also never expressed any sort of affection for Santa Cruz, about 130 miles south of her. In fact, I have a feeling she probably had disdain for the place. So why the fuck did this wine make me feel closer to her than I had since her funeral? I still have no idea, and I probably never will, since that wine is gone and will never be produced again. It was a similar experience to the smell of sandalwood reminding me of the summer of 2015, commuting to San Francisco and an ex-girlfriend. Similar to the way the smell of wet carpet and fake pine reminding me of driving through the backroads of Vermont in my old truck. Similar to how I can’t listen to the Chili Peppers without thinking of California or the Strokes and New York. From all that, I know that it was not just an emotional experience but a sensory one. Addicting is the wrong word. The feeling should be sought after. That sort of connection between body, spirit, and nature is difficult to find but highly rewarding, which is why we still create anything. I thought I had loved whiskey, but it had never offered that sort of experience, not to me. I was also lucky to be working in a generous restaurant. What could’ve been a memorable experience quickly became a reasonable hobby, as the following week I was sent to a natural wine tasting in my then residence of Hudson, NY. Each wine I smelled that felt similar to the Methode Sauvage sparked an adrenaline rush. “Is this it?” I would think. As it turned out, none of the wines I tasted that day stuck with me in quite the same way, although many of them were delicious and offered other, smaller pleasures. I became hooked, and begin studying and drinking wine regularly. Since that time I have had a few bottles that left me moved or stunned, though in different ways, broadening my understanding of the abilities of wine. What I hope to achieve with this blog is a sort of public diary, allowing for musings and reflections, a part of the broader conversation on the importance of wine.

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dimenovelsfromoblivion · 7 years

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Lemniscate

The convoy of 18 wheelers racing along the road were nestled between armored humvees. Painted across the black metallic doors in bold font colored a steel blue was the name Hawkwood. Gunners stood half emerged from their steel-plated watching ahead with vigilant eyes tightly gripped the handles of their mounted .50 cals. UAVs hovered silently overhead stalking the ground below for any pray that might scurry into its panoramic field of vision. They drove west towards the receding night sky. The red and orange hues of dawn reflected brightly in rear view mirror. The lonely two-lane road was surrounded by dense forests. Every now and again they passed a boarded-up building. Usually, a gas station or a rest stop derelict buildings that had been abandoned long ago. Token reminders of a sprawling, interconnected civilization that had been carved and dismembered.

LT Col Levinson formerly of the marines was the commanding officer of the convoy. He spent his extensive military career on the receding boundaries of a crumbling empire. He’d retired from the military to pursue a career with Hawkwood. It was similar work, with more than three times the pay, and with the added perk of being closer to home.

His eyes were covered by a translucent visor attached to his helmet where he could view, in real time the flow of intelligence being fed into the battlenet either through radio chatter, electronic messaging or through the electric eyes of the drones scouting ahead.

The majority of Levinson’s military career had been counterinsurgency work. He fought against guerillas in deserts, jungles, and cities. He had high confidence in his men and the automated systems, but one thing he knew about insurgents is no matter how tight you made the net they always found a way to slip through there was always a hole. There had been a few casualties in the no-mans land far outside the woods and from the city’s borders. Most of these were officially written off as “accidents.” Everything had been relatively calm though and from what Levinson understood about fighting that could be very ominous.

“Sir there’s no response from checkpoint alpha,” the driver informed Levinson.

“Shit, their comm equipment probably just fucked up again,” Levinson shrugged.

“What the hell?” Levinson muttered

A heavy layer of thick black smoke obscured the road ahead. A warning message in bold red letters flashed across his visor, and he was connected to the drones live feed. Less than two kilometers up the road was a barrier of burning cars.

“Oh, fuck,” said Levinson. “All units, all units we have a roadblock up ahead-”

He was interrupted by a rocket streaking out from the trees and striking one of the drones. The flying robot burst into flames and showered the area with jagged shrapnel. The gunners started laying down fire into the forests as they continued to drive head-on into the burning blockade.

“Fuck we’re stuck we gotta turn this motherfucker around!” Levinson shouted.

The forest was lit up by muzzle flashes. The automatic fire made a high-pitched clinking sound as the bullets struck the armor plating. The gunner fell back into the vehicle with his neck spraying blood.

Robert laid his yoga mat across the grass and inhaled the crisp morning air. It was a mild morning. The temperature was in the mid-fifties, but the bountiful sun combined with the slight chill in the air evened it out nicely. Billowy white clouds lazily drifted across the sky being carried by the wind as they slowly dispersed across the blue canopy.

Robert’s wife Rachel was already sitting cross-legged on her mat and well into her breathing exercises. His eight-year-old daughter Theresa was busying herself organizing irregularly shaped blades of grass on her mat. The only noticeable absence from the daily family ritual was Robert’s 15 son Chester.

Salutations to the sun was an integral part of the morning routine in the Pak household. Lemniscate sustained itself on the energy provided by the ever-abiding orb of fire. The city was built on the principle that settled society should be able to function on the resources nature provided. Exceeding these limits could only lead to destruction and thanks to some breakthroughs in engineering they had done quite well for themselves. Lemniscate had all the trappings of modern life and still even managed to provide the little extras the generation that built the burgeoning solar utopia were hopelessly addicted to.

There was no industrial agriculture in Lemniscate, in fact, most people didn’t even eat meat besides the occasional grass-fed beef. What could be grown in the vast greenhouses was distributed along with some perfectly safe nutrient-rich food substitutes boasting to taste just like the dishes they were imitating. They weren’t bad, but they usually fell just a little short on delivering the promised flavors.

People in Lemniscate had no use for markets like previous generations. They saw this system of food distribution as wasteful and inhumane. Instead, the nutritional requirements of a family were carefully calculated by an artificial intelligence that then delivered the food via a system of solar-powered drones.

Chester Pak was the fifteen-year-old son of Robert and Rachel Pak two of Lemniscate’s two most respected citizens and two of engineers behind the revolutionary solar technology that was the foundation of the high-tech bastion. Without their contributions, a self-sustained city that offered all the amenities of modern life would never have evolved into anything beyond a quaint idea. Their combined life’s work was the very existence Chester had grown accustomed to and in his adolescence had come to take for granted.

Thanks to the machinations of genetics Chester’s intellectual potential was a far sight more impressive than most of his peers. For the time being, however, the only way Chester could think to rebel against his brilliant goal driven yet very liberal and open-minded parents was to adopt an attitude of apathy. His ambivalence to the world around him was considerably exacerbated by the numbing lifestyle his parent's life's work had managed to keep going in their little corner of the country.

Robert knocked on Chester’s bedroom door. Robert was very conscious about respecting his son’s space and tried to remember this was just a phase. Afterall rejection of the way of life of his parent's generation was what lead him and Rachel to take such an active role in building Lemniscate. Despite this though he was irritated at having his authority as a parent willfully ignored. He knocked again more firmly.

“Chester,” he said in a stern tone.

“What?” the boy replied sleepily.

Robert rolled his eyes and opened the door. Chester was laying face down in bed with the shades drawn. The only light in the room was the LED light of the tv mounted on the wall.

“What, what’s up?” Chester asked not even bothering to turn his head on his pillow.

Robert pulled the shade up and sunlight flooded into the room striking Chester’s squinting eyes.

“Ah close that up,” Chester said turning away from the light.

“Why aren’t you up for salutations to the sun?” Robert asked.

“I don’t know I just feel like we’ve already said hello to the sun plenty of times already I don’t think it’ll take it personally,” Chester replied dismissively.

“Hey we didn’t raise you to be an ingrate,” Rachel retorted. Robert hadn’t even noticed her standing in the doorway. She arrived just in time and seemed to be in good parental form. Just from the tone of her opening line, she made it apparent she wasn’t in the mood for angsty teenage nonsense.

“We pay our respects because if it weren’t for the sun none of this, and certainly not you would be here now,” she said.

“The sun didn’t build the solar cells,” Chester mumbled.

“That’s not the point,” Robert said with frustration.

Rachel sighed. “Look I know you’re going through that phase where it’s cool to think everyone else is an idiot but believe me there is a fine line between being rebellious and independent and just being a jackass.”

“What does that mean?” Chester said defensively

“If you had any idea what it’s like out there you would never question why we express gratitude to the natural world,” said Robert. “You have no idea how good we have it.”

“Yeah? And what is it like out there? Why is it so terrible compared to here?” Chester asked.

Robert’s ringtone interrupted the conversation. Robert knew it wasn’t the best time to take a call, but it was from a number designated strictly for emergency purposes.

“Shit, I gotta take this,” said Robert. He didn’t see his son rolling his eyes.

“This is Robert Pak,” he answered as he stepped out of the room.

“Robert this is Greg you have to get here quick. Hawkwood packed up and left this morning. We don’t know what to do. We need you down here now!”

Greg was an anxiety-ridden individual, but his voice conveyed genuine panic.

“Just hang on. I’m heading over,” Robert replied authoritatively.

A driverless car was pulling up in front of the house just as Robert was walking out the front door. The car greeted him with a friendly female voice.

“Hello, Robert,”

“Hi,” he replied.

“I have calculated the shortest route to your destination. Is this ok or do you have a preferred route?” Asked the computer.

“That’s fine,” replied Robert reaching for his phone to dial back Greg. The phone rang one and a half times before Greg answered sounding even more terrified than before.

“Robert are you almost here??”

“I’m on my way now.”

“You have to get here fast none of us know what to do,” Greg wailed.

“Greg, what’s happening over there?”

“There's some kind of army heading this way. Apparently really well armed and they’re almost here.” Greg explained in a shaky fluctuating voice.

“What about Hawkwood what are they doing about this?” Robert asked calmly but firmly.

“They left Rob! the assholes fucking left,” Greg sobbed.

Rob shook his head. “They can’t just leave we have a contract this is the kind of thing they’re supposed to deal with.”

“I know that’s what I told them,” Greg’ wined. “I guess they got attacked this morning. They said it wasn’t worth what they’re getting! “We’re so fucked, we’re so fucked!” Greg said as he broke down into full on sobs.

“Greg calm down. We can’t panic. Remember there are always solutions it’s just a matter of finding them.”

Rob ended the call and looked around with confusion when he saw they hadn't moved.

“What’s going on how come we aren’t going anywhere?” He asked visibly frustrated.

“Sorry I didn’t want to interrupt your call,” the car apologized. “I noticed your phone only has fifty-six percent battery life. Would you like to plug into my power source?”

“What the fuck? Just drive this is an emergency!” Rob snapped. The car pulled away from the curb and sped down the road. Robert pulled out a tablet from his shoulder bag and started going through his messages hoping to get some better idea of what was happening. Through the windshield, he could see the sleek metallic body of a small jet gleaming in the sunlight as it ascended into the sky. Another followed in the wake of its exhaust trail, and another closely tailed that one. The exodus was underway.

Robert’s presence only provided momentary relief. The brain trust got down to the business of thinking about how they could save their city from the wave of marauders and morale quickly plummeted. Despite the robust, cutting-edge security systems and protocols they put in place they never had any idea the dangering forming out in the wastelands. Now all they could do was watch helplessly as an army of barbarians marched towards Lemniscate.The rats were quick to desert the ship. After every break, they took one or two fewer of them came back. Soon word came the city’s airfield was going to be out of aircraft before the day was through. Robert had dedicated his life to Lemniscate but now the time had come where the safety of his own family superseded the much-lauded greater good. Now it was time to break the news to his wife. He didn’t know how such a willful woman would react to the idea of abandoning her home. So he made sure to make all the arrangements beforehand.

“I arranged passage for you and the kids on a plane out of here,” he whispered into the phone.

“Just leave? Where would we even go, Robert?” She asked in a tone that was a combination of fear and anger.

“North to Vancouver,” Robert replied calmly.

“This is our home!” Rachel fired back. “I’m not just going to let a bunch of militia assholes tack it form us!

“We can’t stop,” Robert sighed. “The security forces left already. We don’t have the weapons or the expertise. There’s nothing we can do.”

She was silent for a moment. “Robert how are they moving?” she asked.

“What do you mean?” Robert asked.

“Are they marching single file or are they moving as a large huddled mass.”

Robert thought about it for a second. “I suppose they’re pretty close together,” he said.

“Well if there are no guns we can still use explosives,” she suggested.

“How?” asked Robert. “We don’t have any bombs, and even if we did, we have no way to use them.”

“The food delivery drones,” Rachel said. “We can fly them right into the middle of those assholes and blow them the fuck up. I bet they’ll disperse and run off if they had suicide robots coming down on them.”

Robert was skeptical, but it was the best suggestion he had heard so far. He brought the plan back to the rest of the committee, and by default, it went forward. Instead of food, the drones were loaded with makeshift bombs. They launched the fleet of suicide machines and watched from the basement of the office complex as the flying bombs headed east to find their target. They had a bird's eye view of the morbid pyrotechnics display. The drones flew over the mass of people hovered for a second before plummeting to the earth and exploding.

It was just like Rachel said. The fiery explosions broke the enemy’s cohesion and sent them scurrying in all directions. Robert and his colleagues cheered as they watched the fire destroy the horde, but the celebration was short lived. The fires didn’t stop burning. The flames began to consume the surrounding forests, and soon the landscape was set ablaze, and the wall of flames began its own march towards Lemniscate.

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