“ i hate you . and i love you . ' cause i can 't —- i can 't help it . you 're my mom . and i understand ' cause i have made deals to save the ones i love more than once . i forgive you . i forgive you . for all of it . everything . ”
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𝙻𝙰𝚆𝚁𝙴𝙽𝙲𝙴, 𝙺𝙰𝙽𝚂𝙰𝚂
𝚂𝙴𝙿𝚃𝙴𝙼𝙱𝙴𝚁 𝟻, 𝟷𝟸:𝟸𝟾 𝙰𝙼
silence lays steadily, dissipating at the edge of town where robert plant laments behind closed, darkened doors, and jimmy page carries it on a riff, out into the night.
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my daddy taught me to shoot. for the longest while, i imagined all my prey with his face. made it easier. hunter's guilt and hunter's rage go hand—in—hand like that.
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𝚂𝙰𝚅𝙰𝙽𝙽𝙰𝙷, 𝙶𝙴𝙾𝚁𝙶𝙸𝙰
𝙰𝚄𝙶𝚄𝚂𝚃 𝟿, 𝟽:𝟺𝟽 𝙿𝙼
𝗶𝘁 𝗳𝗲𝗹𝘁 𝘄𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴, the pull he felt to the river; and oh, how it burrowed, leaving the victim’s home, driving unto the scene of the crime. he thought, […]
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then the sliver of … [𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴,] when they arrived.
│ 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳.
lungs burn with smoke and cinder. with a sharp inhale, a flick of his wrist, […]
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𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝, his footfall, through the room and behind the couch as he settles atop its frame. bottle lent in offering, he cranes forward. “𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗮𝗻, huh. what’s got you hitting th’ books?”
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