We are all short stories though we want to be novels
The long kind, the Russian kind,
War and Peace, any of the Dickens titles.
The thing is, we rarely get beyond seventy or eighty pages,
Making us novellas at best,
Not in the game with Methuselah,
Not living long enough to figure out the ending,
Instead having to settle for hoping
We and the characters in our story
Will all get out of this mess alive.
We don't.
I don't mean to spoil the ending, but there you are.
--Alberto Rios
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