Happy Hour

by Marlowe Granados

I wonder how it would be to simply exist and feel my voice was necessary and vital without doing much work at all.

she has a true appreciation for department stores; she calls them Free Museums.

impression on a pretty girl, one has to be mean to her. People think girls who have certain magnetism have never known Real Struggle, so they take it upon themselves to give a little bruising and a hard time. They think we should always be learning Life Lessons. You know, he could lacquer me up with whatever ideas he pleased, I could only disappoint.

I want all the tenderness in the world. It’s a natural urge to want to be important in someone’s life. The soft underbelly of a coarse man. A preview is never enough because I am insatiable.

Snark requires zero grace or generosity.

I suppose to savour is to hold something in your mouth for more than a moment, to linger and draw out its details.