‘If you are going to drown, drown in deep water.’

circumference

The apartment was small and ordinary in every way, forgotten even as one stood inside it.

When the darkest part of you meets the darkest part of me, it creates light. Now she had completed that process on her own. She had met the darkest part of herself and created this.

shame that her mother was dead and she could not ask her for advice, shame that her mother didn’t want to be her mother enough to not be dead, just shame, shame, shame.

“Have you ever noticed how closely a butt plug resembles a Native American arrowhead?”

was pointless; gravity worked against her, softening the blow. She wanted the anger knocked out of her, to be left feeling quiet and still, but the punches had been too dull to dislodge it. It surged on.

euphemism

She did think she was special, but she wouldn’t have admitted it. She knew enough to know that there was nothing less special than thinking you were.