Found a piece of paper inside a book I was reading back in December. On it was a drawing of a Christmas tree with different decorations labeled. It read:

"Simple Pleasures" presents: "How to Have a 'Bright Eyes' Christmas"

-Fallen star

-Dying tree, separated and alone (alternatively, a plastic mockery of life)

-Flickering, pitiful lights, never able to truly fight the darkness

-Fragile, transient ornaments

-Milk and cookies for the lies your parents told you

-Present for the only girl you ever loved who left you forever

-Cold (like your heart)

-Music, either Christmas carols or Johnny cash singing "Hurt."

-Alcohol

On the same piece of paper, the beginning of a story: "He bought a book because the cover reminded him of a song he liked and immediately forgot about it."