Play Nice

by Rachel Harrison

Behind every crazy woman is a man sitting very quietly, saying, “What? I’m not doing anything.”

“I would never miss a banana,” I say. “Ever.”

But so often, being right means nothing but winning a round of a losing game.

The sun sets over the parking lot, bathing the grim capitalist landscape in divine light.

At this hour, the parking lot is holy ground, the distant Target Valhalla.

She seems surprised that I’m being a smidge bitchy while she’s trying to be vulnerable and open with me, and I wonder if she knows that she’s being manipulative. She’s typically pretty self-aware.

Unreliable Narrator? I dont feel daphne is being that way.

I remember how they looked at me. Like I was crazy. I shrugged and left the bathroom, understanding there was a fundamental difference between us. Some people jump out of airplanes, some people backpack alone across Europe, some people climb Mount Everest, some people swim with sharks, some people fuck hot strangers they meet on the street, some people do heroin, chase a high because they know what it’s worth, despite the danger. And some people sit around thinking, I would never.

egocentric.”

Hmmmm

Cici.” CLIO

This is the second book. Also marked out with clio like the first one.

You’re right to suspect it wants your attention, time, energy. They love attention. They’ll learn how to get it from you. They’ll engage with you to find your triggers. It turns into a dance.”

clio realizes she is also this way

But she has this asshole baby.

She just wants the attention.” “I don’t need it from you,” I say, sliding out of the booth. “She’s just like her,” Leda

Bc she gets it from the demon?