Pepper Winters

to know that your life will have battles, arms you for the trials ahead.

We could rebel all we wanted and use energy, wishing it wasn’t so…but in the end, the ones who would survive were the ones who waited and watched and learned how to use the monster’s weaknesses against him.

We could rebel all we wanted and use energy, wishing it wasn’t so…but in the end, the ones who would survive were the ones who waited and watched and learned how to use the monster’s weaknesses against him.

there was a time for violence and a time for patience. Only a few could balance the righteous heat with cold calculation.

We were animals.

As surely as any other creature.

But we were the only ones who hid sex behind closed doors and buried our true natures until no one was truthful about what they wanted.

“We’re just monsters with the ability to speak. Monsters who pay any price to be free.”

How could I matter when faced with such vastness?

I want blood. I want corpses. I want

to dance on unmarked graves for this.

I always believed life would grant rewards to those most worthy. I was fucking naïve. Life doesn’t reward—it ruins. It ruins those most deserving and takes everything. It takes everything all while watching any remaining goodness rot to hate.

It wasn’t the terror of the unknown future that stole my false calmness. It was the fear of losing my very self.