Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love

by Marianne Cronin

I pull out my phone and google the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. They look like a great bunch of lads.

“They were from the women’s section. But I don’t need to be bound by a reductive heteronormative gender binary when selecting eyewear.”

What will the themed diners of the 2020s be? I wonder. Hand sanitizer and face masks and toilet rolls stockpiled into towers probably.

Terrifying aesthetic

A funeral is all for the eyes of the living.”

To be counseled on love by an unmarried virgin is one of God’s more amusing tricks, Bridie thinks.

“Love is really just two people who can’t keep away from each other.”

There’s a fleck in this young man’s blue eyes that looks like God picked up his green brush by mistake when he was coloring them in. Father Owen likes to think of God making people by the mixing of paints and colors because, if nothing else is evident from the world, God is an artist.

and i will listen out for bells, just in case. i will listen out forever. it’s getting cold now. so only time left to say i love you bella and jake forever.

And I realize that Bella’s definition of love will have to be expanded to include friendship. Because friendship is just two people who can’t keep away from each other.

“So, the parallelism?” he asks. “Is it used in all writing, not just fiction?” “Once you’ve noticed it, you’ll see it everywhere. It is how we make echoes.” “I’ll look out for it.” “Parallelism is a surprising thing. Parallelism is really everywhere.”