Hazelthorn

by C.G. Drews

“I’m not leaving Hazelthorn because I’m not leaving you.”

“You should’ve called for me. If you put my name in your mouth, I will always listen.”

It was revenge and it was starvation and it was obsession.

“There is nothing else to me but the hollow spaces I’ve carved out for you. I knew I’d cut myself to pieces on you if we ever had the chance to touch, but I wanted to.” His voice unravels, massacred on yearning. “Let me ruin myself on you.”

He belongs to this boy in the way a flower belongs to its god.

“What if the worst of us is the only part that’s real?”

“God was stronger than me when he made Adam and didn’t fall in love with him.”

“You’re meant to be on the other side of the goddamn door, Laurence.”