"
Heat flooded through me, stronger than before, but it was a new kind of heat - not a burning.
It was a glowing.
Everything inside of me came undone as I stared at the tiny porcelain face of the half-vampire, half-human baby. All the lines that held me to my life were sliced apart in swift cuts, like clipping the strings to a bunch of balloons. Everything that made me who I was - my love for the dead girl upstairs, my love for my father, my loyalty to my new pack, the love for my other brothers, my hatred for my enemies, my home, my name, my self - disconnected from me in that second - snip snip snip - and floated up into space.
I was not left drifting. A new string held me where I was.
Not one string, but a million. Not strings, but steel cables. A million steel cables all tying me to one thing - to the very center of the universe.
I could see that now - how the universe swirled around this one point. I'd never seen the symmetry of the universe before, but now it was plain.
The gravity of the earth no longer tied me to the place where I stood.
It was........
"
excruciatingly exquisite
Slowly but surely, the shadow of chuck palahniuk is edging out of this place. Receding, fading. No more sadistic humour, in-your-face kindof writing. Maybe it's a good sign, that my writer's block is getting unblocked and I would no longer find the need to express myself through the premeditated words of others. It's a long shot but still a start is a start.