I held her, but that wasn’t enough to hold us together. That’s where the glue came in.

“I am a contraction. I am I’m.”

“You make me sick. I think I’ll have to call out of work on your account. Or hav…”

“I want to do something spontaneous, like combust.”

“Your words are energy. If you don’t speak them, then you will drink them. Swall…”