Distance Novel

"Targ has no responsibility except to his own fat self, so no one really cares if he sleeps all day or his cholesterol is off the charts. Targ has given up on himself, and so has everyone else."

"I committed no crime. They jumped on their own.
I never lifted a finger, only spoke a few empty words.
I simply did what every other person has been doing to his neighbor for years."
-Bash, Distance

Cyrus Bash never lifted a finger, he never had to. He made the desperate commit irreversible acts. He made them accept the abyss. He incited them to want to fall.

"Expect to not get paid your worth, risk everything everyday to save a life, not get enough rest and get blamed constantly. That's Rescue, you sons of bi***es."
-Shaman, Distance

"We check vitals and give them meds/fluids, then offer them the best brewed coffee or tea or soup that we can find. It's the fastest way for them to become human again."
-Shaman, Distance
(Rescue Protocols)

V + L = J

"Cyrus Bash is Vincent Bashir's younger brother. Vincent is Shaman. Cyrus is the vengeance that Vincent never took."
-Enkidu, Distance

After she was diagnosed with cancer, Lorelei's friends and family conveniently fu**ed off to enjoy life without the burden of her. Vincent gave her shelter and volunteered to share the work to maintain her animal sanctuary, a task for five people that are now two.

After 100 days, Vincent prayed to God for help. No help came.

After 1000 days, he prayed to the Devil for a reckoning to this world of apathy and indulgence.

The Devil answered.
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"Targ Dewars is a pizza-eating, milkshake-drinking fat f**k of an iceberg, with a skinny face skewered on top of a 300-pound body. A brilliant brain wasted on a psychotic mind."
-Enkidu, Distance

"Trouble always happens when someone is forced to say something when there's nothing to be said."
-Heraru, Distance

"How do I define 'rich'? Someone who has options. Someone who doesn't depend on someone else to make his day happen."
-Shaman, Distance

"Between love and honor, I'll take honor any day.
Love is fickle.
Honor,
by definition,
is not."
-Shaman, Distance

"I reserve my greatest contempt for the self-serving who deceives to be kind."
-Shaman, Distance

"Most Americans practice kindness with the option to bail, and they do."
-Barabbas,Distance

"Resolute kindness is a prison;
an invisible place, a lonely place where no one lingers."
-Heraru, Distance

"You do the work and the exercises until the world of it becomes familiar, becomes small. That's when improvisation begins."
-Shaman, Distance

"Jack has a great gift; in his heart, he knows that he has exceeded his parents' expectations."
-Shaman, Distance

"Some moments aren't even worth a syllable."
-Barabbas,Distance

"It's incredible how those with no power act as if they have power thinking that that will give them power."
-Shaman, Distance

"Who's killing the Pedantics? And will Salem Rescue come to their aid? Stay tuned..."
-Ross McCall's Olde Tymey Podcast, Distance

"I always give credit to those that help me, because it is right, and it tells everyone that I am worth helping."
-Heraru, Distance

"Always sleep exhausted, never giving the universe doubt about your contributions."
-Shaman, Distance

"Derrick Roy Battery is a balding lounge lizard with hamhock arms, who once got so hammered that he tried to hit on his 18-year old niece at a quinceanera."

"Now, Jimpop 'Crazy Train' Cramden is a trash-hoarding indestructible son of a bitch. You can't kill him--just wait for all the methane he's inhaled to blow and turn him into a ceiling smear."
-Enkidu, Distance

"Carlaine Stears will make a buck off anything, including breaking into the morgue to swipe postmortem celebrity sp***ge to sell on eBay."
-Enkidu, Distance