we are all just misfit human beings infatuated with the idea of perfection.

"Computer problems again?" "Yeah." "Of course."

Henry's grumpy. Isaac's lonely. And then Isaac rings the cereal helpline Henry works at, and things get a lot more complicated. [short story - #48, 1st october 2014] [teen fiction - #226, 1st october 2014] PLEASE NOTE: this story is currently being converted from all lower case to sentence case. this might take some time.

A girl. A train. A delay. [Cover made by rigor_samsa]

❝ Hearts are wild creatures, that is why our ribs are cages. ❞ © nate k. 2014

❝ Blow out all the candles, you're too old to be so shy. ❞ © nate k. 2014

» she was the one thing that i loved as much as i despised. potential trigger warnings for a toxic relationship and alluded suicide

do you ever feel the desire to run? [Cover made by etherealinsanity]

Hudson Ellis is good at his job. Somehow, he manages not to annoy people when he knocks at their doors and asks them to contribute to the charity he works for - instead, he gets them to sign up for sponsoring programmes and fish whatever spare change they have out of their pockets. Even the infamously tough residents of New York City are falling victim to Hudson's easy-going ways and wide smile; that is, until one woman renders him speechless with sarcastic refusals and slams her door in his face. Perhaps Hudson would be able to forget her - if it wasn't for the fact that she lives on the same floor of the next apartment over, and they both have floor-to-ceiling windows that allow for a rather generous view into each other's flats.

❝ He got too curious so she finally reveals what makes it so special. ❞ © nate k. 2014