Darling Venom

by Parker S. Huntington

Adolescent love is the greatest pain of all. It teaches you the power other people have to destroy you.

“It must be painful sharing a heart with all that grief.”

Here’s the thing about disappointment. It means you expected something.

Love is expensive. Its currency is grief.

Tears are the language of grief. And grief is the language of love.

How convenient it is to have the villain and victim laid out before me in such a pretty, perfect bow.

Turns out, life is a tragedy up close.