You keep waiting for the heaviness to leave you. You keep waiting for the moment you never think about the ex again. It doesn't come.

“You'd think, given the blood we see, that there's a great war going on out in t…”

“As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiation…”

“Stared at the toothpick-thin blackgirl who worked at the Friendly's, whom he wa…”

“I couldn't help it. I tried to keep it down but it just flooded through all my …”