Bite the Hand That Feeds

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for
a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch
out over the whole of time.
____—Albert Camus

~1100 words.
Set in the 'Fever' era.
Ryan is consumed by hatred and self-destruction; Brendon is desperately picking up pieces.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is
a part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
____—Herman Hesse

Thank you to Sheepy and Andy for beta-ing.