I couldn’t hear a thing in the world but you. And it was so cold then, and so silent, and I loved you so much. Now it’s hot and dead quiet again, and I love you still.
I will play out the string. I will not betray your trust. I will find you.
The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic.
What happens in the band room stays in the band room.
If you don’t know about Tumblr then you are not supposed to know about Tumblr. It’s like fight club.
And on the last day, the bad days become so difficult to recall, because one way or another, she had made a life here, just as I had. The town was paper, but the memories were not. All the things I’d done here, all the love and pity and compassion and violence and spite, kept welling up inside me.
Night falls fast. Today is the past.
It is so hard to leave-until you leave.
Leaving feels too good, once you leave.
I hope we get pulled over, he says. I’d like to see how the cop responds to a black man wearing a Confederate T-shirt over a black dress.
She’s the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like, the first-ever Nobel Prize for Awesome.
She was loved deeply, but not widely.
He let his mind wander. It went to a predictable place, and he missed her.
This one’s for Alaska Young!
And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.
I’m a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think...
I opened the door. He looked down at my shirt and smiled. “Funny,” he said. “Don’t call my boobs funny,” I answered.
Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children.
If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit, because I know when I was younger I felt like authors were like wizards or something. Turns out they’re total muggles.
Facts, even false ones, cannot be copyrighted.