“Letters of the condemned. Last words scratched on a cell’s wall. To write like that.”
“The walls are covered -crammed- with writing. No. Not writing. They are covered with a single four-letter word that has been inscribed over and over, on every available surface. Love.”
“Everybody was strange. In a fit of frustration, she scratched out strange and wrote the word CRACKPOTS in big letters.”
“What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here,' on the last wall of the universe.”
“sometimes every word i write is 'love' but the letters are rearranged, the sounds are different. all the words are red.”
“Could one write a strongly worded letter to the deceased requiring their full cooperation?”