with communal bathrooms and cafeterias and no private spaces to be crazy in?
I’d be stuck here for college, if I could ever get my thinking straightened enough to attend.
I’d live in my house with Mom, and then afterward, too.
I could never become a functioning grown-up like this; it was inconceivable that I’d ever have a career.
In job interviews they’d ask me, What’s your greatest weakness?
and I’d explain that I’ll probably spend a good portion of the workday terrorized by thoughts I’m forced to think,
possessed by a nameless and formless demon, so if that’s going to be an issue, you might not want to hire me.
Thoughts are just a different kind of bacteria, colonizing you. I thought about the gut-brain information axis.
Maybe you’re already gone. The prisoners run the jail now. Not a person so much as a swarm. Not a bee, but the hive.
I couldn’t stand my mother’s breath on my face. My palms were sweating. I felt my self slipping away.
You know how to deal with this. “Can you turn over?” I whispered, but she responded only with breath.
You just need to stand up. I picked up my phone to text Daisy, but now the letters blurred out on the screen,
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