One time I went to the zoo and saw a rhino and the rhino was me.

I wouldn’t necessarily say that I’m “in training” to be a Dr. Ricken Hale because his aura is so big that I can’t even step into it.

Note the accidental junction of each lichen that overtakes its neighbor in a new arc. All go somewhere where fires are plentiful.

As he hit an embankment, flipped twice, and careened into the cabbage vines of Hope’s Bastard Outcropping, his mind spun serenely above him, surveying his crumpled body as it vomited teeth through his girlish lips. And Javier thought... “Awesome.”

Because for one brief moment, with the setting sun on his handsome face and the scent of his free, forming "musk" in the cab, Javier belted out a pure and self-affirming howl to the horizon.