Betty Blue Eyes
Rohan Muthanna
Relentless torrents of rain poured down that whole night, gently lulling me to sleep.
Relentless torrents of rain poured down that whole night, gently lulling me to sleep.
So what if I can’t cook? I can clean a crime scene then let you hate-fuck me after.
I keep trying not to say, I think about you all the time, I want to come for you, and I hang up without saying it, and then I call you later from my bed and I end up saying it all anyway.
Swallowing those pills at night was now like playing Russian roulette; the blues were, for the first time in many years, the leading cause of drug deaths in Scotland, overtaking even heroin.
Between long sucks of her Newport, Jessalyn told me she was still so angry at her best friend for missing her wedding that she’d mailed her a box of crickets.
Crickets? I said.
Dead crickets.
My mother always says it was my father’s fault I couldn’t get along with anyone.
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When I was born, they thought I was dead. My grandmother, who could neither read nor write, plunged me into a tub of cold water. I got started after that.
My father was a coal miner
A tired black horse lies down in a field, and doesn’t get up again.
It wasn’t nice to call her eyes empty, Sondy supposed. Guileless, most people would say. Furtive, is probably what they’d call Sondy’s eyes.
Your Uber arrives and now you remember you’re not wearing any underwear.
“Girls like porn too,” she said. “Don’t be sexist.”
I go into parties wearing a long-sleeve t-shirt that says Bonjour on the front and Au
Revoir on the back, eating candy cigarettes.
That comment got 55 upvotes. I downvoted it. I don’t have friends anymore
Getting chemical poisoning together seemed romantic, the closest you could come to being entombed, Pompeii-style, in each other’s arms.
all these changes in my life were made without my consent
This place looks haunted as shit.
You touch everything you see. You want everything you touch.
Uncle Dale says, “We’re lucky that none of us can fly.”
The human race was absurd and overwrought. Men were feeble-minded narcissists and women, acoustic blowhorns with an endless flurry of wind.
Against cloudless skies, any of the available disorders are at your disposal.
I said to Martin Amis once, told him Augie March is a jazz beat novel and he said his son reckons that
Now she wore a menacing permutation of the cheerful, customer-service smile he had seen her display earlier.
Love is like a museum. You have to look around, experience things, and then leave.
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