@storymaybetold The boring things are the ones that are common and useful. Daily maintenance is not exciting: drink water, sleep eight hours a night, eat vegetables, move your body, be kind, keep your promises, clean the bathroom, express yourself, open a savings account, breathe.
He beckons the allusion of those old advertisements that glorified it. The ones of polite gentlemen and their cigars, elegant fingers and the whispers of smoke that climb like ivy up the trellis.
Will, with his shaky hands and discount Marlboros, does not carry the same weight.
@ilmostroinfame reflection in his devil’s glass-sheen eyes before they shift.
He doesn’t speak. There is trust here, implicit in the quiet way he takes cues. He’s good at that, soaking in his surroundings like a sponge. He takes his bag — not nearly enough to make for a whole person, nor the
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i dreamt the other night of the scent of sweat, jaws at my throat, nails drawing blood at the base of my hair. we will make love with our teeth or not at all.