If Nothing Else, I Will Have at Least Written This Sentence: Sentences from an Unwritten Novel

Given time, he grew to realize life had become awkward: little more than a catalog of events that would never happen, a litany of items he would never possess.

He was part of a loose, widespread cult known as America which subscribed to the belief that the investment of a portion of each paycheck for the purchase of small electronic devices could balance the ills brought on by social media, bad genes or otherwise by providing a variety of platforms.

These days they spent many long nights listening to impressively engineered playlists with expensive headphones and occasionally looked over at all sorts of people talking on the TV, their wooden mouths moving like those of nutcrackers and puppets, all while scrolling across an internet as burned out and lifeless as a planet more ancient than the one on which they so inhospitably lived.