Portland

[Freeky]

Near the corner of _____ and _____, there is an old brown house with an old grey car in front of it.  This is the house of an artist, and not just any artist, this artist is really like Mary Shelley in that she feels she has to be miserable.  Why she feels this way is unknown; perhaps she feels that she must be punished for being herself, or perhaps she just feels she isn't worthy of happiness.

So she does her art, and it's really good, and she does her thing, and she feels really bad.

As time goes on, the house will develop a miasma of sadness and regret, and eventually - after the children have grown up and learned to fly - it will become "that house" with the old lady with the crazy eyes that scares the scabs off the local yuppies.  She will appreciate that on a level that even she doesn't understand.

Eventually, she will pass, as do we all, and the house will remain.  And it will remember.  People will rent it or buy it, but they won't stay, because there's just something not right about the place.  People will feel sad when they're there, for no reason whatsoever, and maybe they'll hear and smell the kilns operating in the studio that is now a rec room.

And the house will fall into disuse and neglect, but it will remember. 

Years after The Incident (for eventually there is always an Incident), when archaelogists are sifting through the remains of The City, they will find the remains of this house, and the remains of the kilns and racks stuffed away in a corner of the yard.  And in one of these kilns, they will find a small stone shaped like a human heart.  They will assume that it is a sculpture of some kind.

They'll be wrong.

Or kill me.

Bump, cuz he doesn't remember writing this.

[Doktor Howl]

I don't, actually.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Aw man. I LOVE this. It was such a meaningful piece to me, at a really difficult time in my life!

[Freeky]

I don't, actually.

That's the day you got poisoned by your meds. It was the klonipin, if I'm remembering right.

[East Coast Hustle]

that stuff is heady. never mix it with xanax.

[Doktor Howl]

Aw man. I LOVE this. It was such a meaningful piece to me, at a really difficult time in my life!

Glad to hear it helped.