“Soco Amaretto Lime” - Brand New
I’m gonna stay eighteen forever
So we can stay like this forever
And we’ll never miss a party
cause we keep them going constantly
And we’ll never have to listen
to anyone about anything
cause it’s all been done and it’s all been said
we’re the coolest kids and we take what we can get
“I’m the kind of woman who wants to know the end of the story, she thought, staring at her face in the jostling mirror. I want to know how it’s all going to end before it even starts. Catherine Land liked the beginnings of things. The pure white possibility of the empty room, the first kiss, the first swipe at larceny. And endings, she liked endings, too. The drama of the smashing glass, the dead bird, the tearful goodbye, the last awful word which could be unsaid or unremembered. It was the middles that gave her pause.
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
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Gold. A little obsessed with covering my walls with framed prints.
She put on the sweater, and suddenly she was too hot. But without it, she was cold again. And she read too much into that, as she did most things these days. Too much time spent in her head. Too much time being untouched. The object behind the glass in a museum that had lost all meaning. An artifact. Unused and dying. Cold. Sweater-less. Where were the naughty boys who ignored the “hands off” signs? Their dirty finger tips leaving violent smudges on the glass. Proof of their need. Proof that she was real and used.
“All the words you need are to be found in the dictionary. All you have to do is put them in the right order.
Emma Darcy
