Cherry

by Nico Walker

But she wasn’t the hill I was meant to die

We would get to screaming at one another, then fuck and sleep like young wolves in a shoe box.

And I can tell you now that there are many things better than to try and be tough, not the least of which is to be young and fuck your girl and leave it at that.

Fort Hood was bleak, a new kind of desert, engineered to induce fatalism in the young. It worked like a charm.

They said he was hitting her in the ass. She was definitely fuckable. She had a nice face. And she was hard-core. One of God’s diamonds.

Funny thing about guns. If you’re known to rob things people will just give you guns. It’s kind of like sponsoring missionaries.