I Was a Teenage Slasher

by Stephen Graham Jones

sometimes nothing keeps me together at the seams ––NIKKI SIXX

It was the best of times––high school––and it was the suckiest of times: high school.

People who wear plaid pants and hit small balls aren’t exactly the crowd I run with. The crowd I do run with are… well. We’re the ones with black hearts and red hands. Masks and machetes.