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Nihility

By Kalani Perry | Published: February 3, 2012
I believe it’s almost immoral to perpetuate superstitions, however comforting, onto anyone outside yourself. We’ve been creating these stories since fire, and hominids becoming bipeds. They explain the unexplainable with specific myths that change in every culture and over the millennia. With no empirical evidence whatsoever, these ridiculous stories become embedded. And then people kill [...]
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Ease

By Kalani Perry | Published: June 25, 2011
I’m determined to resurrect the best aspects of our love affair as its legacy, to pay forward the myths that you and I created then lived. Here now placed into a centrifuge to isolate the truth from all the devices we put in place to protect our versions of whatever happened. But there was a time [...]
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What are we except the stories we tell about ourselves?

By Kalani Perry | Published: January 21, 2011
I find myself doing the same thing so I can hardly blame people for creating myths and replacing what may have really happened with versions of the truth that cause the least amount of cognitive dissonance. As I take a break from my memory, it occurred to me that your version of what happened might [...]
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Monica’s gift to Hillary, and the worst part about everything

By Kalani Perry | Published: December 27, 2009
My first instinct was to prolong my ignorance. I didn’t want to know. Claims to the contrary are invented or imagined. Ignorance was lonely, but bearable, and lacked the inevitable apathy and casual cruelty that seemed to be the fate of knowing. The paradox, of course, is that the sheer audacity, once understood, brought calm [...]
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