* ️️ ️️ 𝙟̲𝙟̲.

⠀𝖎t’s ⠀ really ⠀ hard ⠀ to ⠀ scrub ⠀ ᵀᴴᴱ ⠀ 𝐃𝐎𝐆 ⠀𝐏𝐈𝐒𝐒 ⠀ out ⠀ of ⠀ a ⠀ white ⠀ t͟r͟a͟s͟h ⠀

[* ️️ ️️ 𝙟̲𝙟̲. @piecemaking]

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𝖒ild kleptom͟a͟n͟i͟a͟c ﹠̲
a 𝒇uture tax 𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐓.
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[* ️️ ️️ 𝙟̲𝙟̲. @piecemaking]

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pressing the warm metal to the edge of the cluttered countertop, leaving a row of smiles burned into the wood.
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[‍* ‍ 𓆉 ‍ ┄ ‍ 𝒯𝙷𝙰𝚃’𝚂 ‍ 𝒦𝙸𝙰͟𝚁͟𝙰‍. @pogueseffect]

silently watching, a brow raised.

[* ️️ ️️ 𝙟̲𝙟̲. @piecemaking]

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yet to clock his friend’s unease, baby-blues fixed on the flame, still engrossed in his destructive compulsion when he dumbly questions, “what?”
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[‍‍ ‍‍ 𝓜𝚁. ‍‍💍 ‍‍ 𝓡𝙾͢𝚄͢𝚃͢𝙻͢𝙴͢𝙳͢𝙶𝙴 .ᐟ @poguesgold]

he finally decides to speak up , ptsd getting the best of him . “ dude ——- can you not ?? “

[* ️️ ️️ 𝙟̲𝙟̲. @piecemaking]

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reaching for a discarded receipt, pinching it between two fingers before holding a lighter to a corner and watching as the paper curls black——indifferent to his audience.
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[‍‍ ‍‍ 𝓜𝚁. ‍‍💍 ‍‍ 𝓡𝙾͢𝚄͢𝚃͢𝙻͢𝙴͢𝙳͢𝙶𝙴 .ᐟ @poguesgold]

just observing from a few feet away . he kinda wants nothing to do with fire .. at all .

[️️ ️️️️️️️️️ @ichortale]

your steel—toed boots, your handguns.

[ً @sewerscribe]

and we all disappear in the end. our lives spent. never even knowing who we were.

[* ️️ ️️ 𝙟̲𝙟̲. @piecemaking]

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flicking a lighter repeatedly.
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[ꨄ @lostaffections]

this was far beyond the kind of pain a sixteen year old boy like him could endure.

[️️ ️️️️️️️️️ @ichortale]

playing in the swamp of alligator blood behind our house, in the marshy lawn, he’d always hold my head under the water a little too long.

[ᅟᅟgibson girl, @sainticide]

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.

[ᅟᅟgibson girl, @sainticide]

so this is it, that's how it ends. i guess there's nothing more romantic than dying with your friends.

[* ️️ ️️ 𝙟̲𝙟̲. @piecemaking]

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they can roll a doobie, smoke in a rare moment of silence.
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[‍* ‍ 𓆉 ‍ ┄ ‍ 𝒯𝙷𝙰𝚃’𝚂 ‍ 𝒦𝙸𝙰͟𝚁͟𝙰‍. @pogueseffect]

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she figured. she just doesn’t want him to spend the day by himself.
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[️️ ️️️️️️️️️ @ichortale]

let me count the ways in which my father loved me: with fists drawing blood.

[* ️️ ️️ 𝙟̲𝙟̲. @piecemaking]

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he won’t object, but he’s not feeling—— 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘺.
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[‍* ‍ 𓆉 ‍ ┄ ‍ 𝒯𝙷𝙰𝚃’𝚂 ‍ 𝒦𝙸𝙰͟𝚁͟𝙰‍. @pogueseffect]

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. . . would he care if she joins him?
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[* ️️ ️️ 𝙟̲𝙟̲. @piecemaking]

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spending father’s day on his boat, a six-pack tucked next to him.
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[️️ ️️️️️️️️️ @ichortale]

you’re going to die in your best friend’s arms. and you play along because it’s funny, because it’s written down, you’ve memorized it, it’s all you know.

[* ️️ ️️ 𝙟̲𝙟̲. @piecemaking]

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oh, i’m always in the mood for a few ‘juice boxes’. don’t get used to being right, but some brewskis on the beach can’t be wrong.
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[‍* ‍ 𓆉 ‍ ┄ ‍ 𝒯𝙷𝙰𝚃’𝚂 ‍ 𝒦𝙸𝙰͟𝚁͟𝙰‍. @pogueseffect]

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2-0 for being right, that’s a first. sounds good to me, dude. in the mood for a few ‘juice boxes’ too?
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[* ️️ ️️ 𝙟̲𝙟̲. @piecemaking]

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deal. surfing first, obviously. can’t save the world on an empty wave count.
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[‍* ‍ 𓆉 ‍ ┄ ‍ 𝒯𝙷𝙰𝚃’𝚂 ‍ 𝒦𝙸𝙰͟𝚁͟𝙰‍. @pogueseffect]

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i guess you’re right for 𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒. yeah, i could deal with no pay, as long as we squeeze in a beach day or two? one for surfing, the other for 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 the beach.
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[️️ ️️️️️️️️️ @ichortale]

i have this dream that i am hitting my dad with a baseball bat and he is screaming and crying for help, and maybe halfway through it has more to do with me killing him than it ever did protecting myself.

[* ️️ ️️ 𝙟̲𝙟̲. @piecemaking]

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so, about that…
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[‍‍ ‍‍ 𝓜𝚁. ‍‍💍 ‍‍ 𝓡𝙾͢𝚄͢𝚃͢𝙻͢𝙴͢𝙳͢𝙶𝙴 .ᐟ @poguesgold]

dumbass owes me $ 60 and goes into hiding 😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒 Right .