We were pumping gas at the station down the road from the diner and I got to thinking about my funds. I did an inventory check and found three hundred dollars in fresh twenties fattening my leather wallet. I didn’t know how much money she brought, but at this point, having gone this far, I’d figured she had herself a level head. We had both ( Read more... )

We’d been planning for months, just waiting for a reason and then, as deaths usually go, it just happened. I remember asking her one day, working the aisles, "What if we just picked up and left ( Read more... )

Most days that you’re alive, you’re really just going through the motions of killing yourself. And this comes out especially when you’re trying to explain this simple idea to your friends. They look at you like you’re nuts, like you’ve got some kind of mental disease. Mary especially, “You’re such a pessimist,” she says ( Read more... )

I often wish people didn't consistently disappoint me. I also wish it was their fault and not mine.

There was the rattle of the old wall unit A/C blasting lukewarm mildew into the air, the steady glug glug of whiskey slaking from a bottle of Jack, the sound of a rat gnawing something inside the walls, his stomach growling in quiet discontent, an old radio playing the Glenn Miller Band. He sits up, still hunched over, tossing the empty bottle ( Read more... )

Cus this last breakup stings like a mother fucker. I feel so robbed. I know that sometimes, things just aren't meant to go our way, but usually I'm the one telling her to fuck off. Not the other way around. She just wasn't in to me I guess ( Read more... )

my phone number is (818) 447 1648. call me when you get back to th3 states. Miss you man.

Powerlights flicker the light outside ( Read more... )

Everyone's got one right? I figure I'll land a management position somewhere in a retail situation because it's what I know and have been good at for a long time. I have been pretty succesful at Macy's and see no reason why someone of my skills and holding a degree couldn't get a job working as a supervisor ( Read more... )

Since I've started smoking I've always smoked a lot. Now I find myself dreading a day without smoking. It's hard not capping off the night without sitting on my patio all messed up. I don't cry, but I figure I ought to. I dunno. I guess I carry lots of guilt. I wish I had done more, like maybe if I had helped out with the bills instead of ( Read more... )