His college ex's husband was jacked. So Jacked that he changed his name, legally, to Jack. No first name or last name. Only a single name. Jack .

He was so jacked that his doctor suggested he donate his body to science.

"Don't worry. You would still be alive. It's less...

When he went to sell his blood they told him his blood was bad.

"You got dirty  blood ."

The lady tilted her head down, peered her eyes over her reading glasses. Her hair was curly. Reminded him of grandma. Not his real grandma. He never knew her. Never knew a single...

Max was thinking about his wallet now. He put that crumbled piece of paper in a safe. It was a toy safe, you could open with a knife, or if you were really smart just with a screw driver. Taking the battery out, and putting them back in. Max felt...

"I have dirty blood."

The doctor looked confused. Cal said it again. "My  blood . It's gone bad."

The doctor pushed his glasses up against the bridge of his nose. Then lied. "We'll do some tests. I'll get back to you."

It would've been Cal's third day off if the doctor gave him...

The taste of  blood was tinny. He may have liked it had he not been in the current situation. Across from the table was the man with the good taste in suits. He may as well have had a pistol pointed at him. That's the situation he was in now....

"God Dammit!" Sardinsky yelled, while letting go of the collar of the kid in front of him who was a foot shorter. 80 pounds lighter. Or at least that kid had been those things. Now he... or it, was just a corpse. Sardinsky looked down at his white polo. It...

One of the young kids with long hair at the table full of young kids with long hair loudly asked, "have you seen the blue man in real life?"

"Nobody's seen him in real life," another kid groaned. Then the kid who had asked the original question groaned. He realized the...

As soon as I got home I tried doing laundry . But my mom, that overbearing wench came in just as I was trying to, asking 'why was I washing clothes?'.

Why was I washing... because I fucking want to, is what I wanted to tell her. But I had never...

To keep his ten pints of  blood clean, his  kidneys yielded around two liters of urine each day. He had a friend who's kidneys weren't working like once were. She was on the transplant recipient list, but it had been a year now, and there was no clarity on how...

Whenever she looked at the  urine in the toilet she thought of how wasteful the  human body was. All of that was dirty  blood . Filtered out from the carmine fluid, deemed as unfit. Her cells had to respirate, had to keep burning energy. And in that waste was produced.

Then...

He liked the  library . Without it he would feel miserable everyday at lunch, sitting in an echo chamber of juvenile screaming.

Instead he got to play chess or surf the net while eating the sandwich his mom had packed. It was always the same. White turkey and yellow cheddar...

blue was the color of his blood before they pumped it out of his veins.

red was the color of his blood before they put it through the centrifuge .

yellow was the color of the liquid that remained after they returned his red blood cells.

49 dollars was the amount...

Man drank pure  water and it became his  blood .

Sometimes he and another man would get into an argument over water. And he would hit the other man with a rock and blood would flow out of the other man.

The first time man killed he felt invincible. By the...

Man saw that every time urine left his body he would soon die...

if it were not for water . Pure, clear water that he could drink so that he would not run out of blood .

The earth provided so much water. It seemed an endless supply. Man would urinate in...

When I saw my blood on the snow I realized it was the first time I'd ever seen it. Blood stained snow.

Growing up in Michigan  winters I'd seen all kinds of other mixtures. Dog shit on snow. Motor oil on snow. Piss on snow. But I was amazed to have...

A lot of the people I listen to at the shelter sell plasma . For a good portion of them the cash they make from plasma is their only source of income. I'll see them invite others to come with them, because as Todd told me, "they get bonuses for...

Our town had a term for that age when boys were still boys but suddenly had the fist and wrists of men. Didn't mean they had the same musculature, but they now suddenly wielded these thickened hands like hammers attached to their wiry arms. 

Until this time the fights didn't...

blood is not far off from  water . 92 percent of blood is made of it. 

In college if he scored a 92 then he got the highest grade point possible. 4 point oh.

So why was it that you could inject h20 into the veins of someone low on blood...

For all our drinking and cooking, we use reverse-osmosis   water . We get this through three three gallon refillable jugs that we take to our little grocery store. Most times we only refill two jugs at a time. Some days it's one. Rarely it's all three. But most times a...

She sat there sipping black coffee , so much of it that she wondered if it would turn her blood black. Black blood was a thing. She read about it in a Jo Nesbo novel. If you stabbed someone in the liver you would watch the blood pour out black.

Apparently...

On her smoke break she wondered where all the black from the  coffee went. Sometimes when she drank a lot of coffee, especially strong coffee, her urine smelled of it. It delighted her actually. But she never saw any black coming out. And she didn't have black skin or hair....