Happy Hour

by Marlowe Granados

You should always keep old friends happy because they know more about you than you’d like.

There is comfort in getting ready to go out. I relish it.

and it was the girls and gays who invented parties.

I knew him intimately, and he knew me not at all.

In order to create a rapport with the belly-shirt girl, I told her, “Sometimes I wish on 11:11.” She nodded vigorously.

I felt a little giddy. There’s nothing like the feeling of a Possibility beginning to present itself.