One of my spiritual gifts is the ability to spiral out of control at the smallest provocation, and a creature who knows the access code to hell is no small provocation. I started rethinking our entire relationship as we drove back from Jersey into Philadelphia. If Jay loves these dark things so much, I thought, who must he be? Either he is just a different kind of person, someone who likes scary things, or he is conspiring with the elf, the devil, and Pontius Pilate to try to steal my soul. I couldn’t stomach the idea of the latter, so for most of our time together I chose to believe the
...more
