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21 " The outside of you had peeled away, and I could see your insides as clear as my own hand in my lap, aching to reach for you. "
― Julio Alexi Genao , When You Were Pixels (Syntax #0.1)
22 " I didn’t know what to do.I knew what I wanted to do. I knew what I was supposed to do.But I didn’t know what I was going to do. "
23 " I was asked a series of questions.What did you see? Why are there no files in the video archives? How did the assassin escape? I lied every time. "
24 " Things end. Everything ends. But for a few days in a city full of hunger, and avarice, and alienation—in this fucked-up mess of a life spent wandering in the dark without a hand to hold on to— I was not alone. And neither were you. "
25 " I’m nothing, here. A lowly surveillance analyst. Being the hero could have meant something good for me. Could have changed my whole life.I could have done it. I should have done it.I sat there and I thought about you, instead. "
26 " Undertown. You maybe don’t remember it. Your clothes don’t smell of it. Of the filth, the rot. The stinking hell of vapor and grime. The warren of hovels and the millions of us starving in them, defending whatever pathetic collection of things we call ‘ours’—sometimes to the death, yet still doing little more than waiting to die. "