Someone can save you with a kiss, but refuses. Maybe that is all that Judas wanted: a kiss. When he didn’t get it, he answered in kind. Thirty pieces of silver—what were those to him? He had given his answer. Then he went and hanged himself.

John Ajvide Lindqvist and Ebba Segerberg, Itsy Bitsy: A Short Story

Consider also:

  1. Bubba Ho-Tep
  2. The Book of the New Sun
  3. Omnium Gatherum: 17aug2022
  4. “Eirene, the goddess of peace, could barely contain her delight. If the absence of Death meant the absence of war then surely her time had come?”
  5. “Old-fashioned love, yet you feel it a fountain Springing for ever, most pure; Old-fashioned love, yet as adamant mountain Solid and sure.”