Graveyard Shift

by M.L. Rio

“Saint Anthony’s Fire. It was a sort of medieval epidemic. Caused gangrene and hallucinations and made people feel like they were being burned alive.”

She learned to live in the permanent twilight of sleep-deprivation psychosis. Life, if you could call it that, was a never-ending out-of-body experience.

“Straight men are so stupid. Women aren’t complicated. If you don’t know how to get to where you want to be with her, just fucking ask for directions.”