Damaged Grump

by Nicole Snow

Everybody Sings the Blues (Callie)

I want to read but I’ve had a few glasses of wine and can’t read fantasy like I want to ):

Strumming the right chords is what makes a true connection...isn’t that correct, Miss Snoopy?” Suddenly, I feel the weight of everyone’s attention shifting my way. And it hits me with a pained gasp. He’s speaking to me. I whip my head around to stare at him in shock. He hasn’t moved an inch, not in the slightest—but now there’s a wicked quirk to his arrogant mouth as he watches me with eyes like pure cobalt. My shoulders stiffen. “I...come again?”

Girl why did you respond LMAO

I’ve just been hired as chief editor for the most popular cultural and music messenger in Chicago, thank you very much. That, sir, is what I know about standards, and journalistic integrity, and ethics and...and lines I won’t cross just to get rich. I know enough to know you have no lines.”

I would bet money that he owns the paper she’s working for

Or maybe I’m just used to being overshadowed. It happens when your father topped the Billboard charts as a hot young musician before it all came crashing down.

ok so now I know why she hates “paparazzi”

The last one would be a particularly bad idea when I heard it turned another rich Chicago freak, Magnus Heron, into some girl’s freaking husband.

not the rich Chicago freak

And he proves me right when he says, “As my new subsidiary and sister company, Just Vibing will be fully expected to contribute to Osprey Media’s ad revenues by driving traffic to The Chicago Tea.” The Tea? That Tea?

WAIT I JUSY REMEMBERD WHO HE IS FRON THE OTHER BOOKS OMG

“Should I show you my ID, officer?” I ask. “I’m thirty-five on the nose.” “Oh. So not that much older.” Her resume said she was twenty-six. That nine-year difference feels like a century.

not the author throwing in their ages casually

If they only knew, every last one of my enemies could rip me open and sink their teeth in my viscera.

after watching the tinder swindler, I cannot take the word “enemies” seriously

She tells me how the record labels let her write her own songs with little guidance and how she’s always wanted to do a collab with Megan Thee Stallion

MEGAN

Tell me why you’re so afraid. Why it scares me to see myself in you.

you see yourself in her???

Easterly Ribbon is a textbook victim case in a supremely abusive relationship.

I hope she writes an “all too well (10 minute version) song for him

“Oh, come on. You know you give off a YA villain vibe. You cultivate it.”

LMAO

When day three came with a quick Zoom meeting, though, my skin started itching like hell.

It’s an sti

She must be so lit right now.

???

I come in her with an intensity that makes me wish for a broken condom.

ayo? 🤨📸

The choice is yours.

no one: rhysand:

Another night on my pier, staring at the water and watching the stars.

Ok gatsby wow

And I know this is personal but I hope you and Mr. Osprey get back together. That whole thing, that article he wrote...Milah showed me. She

Just now realizing Milah is Paige’s sister and will probably get her own book soon 😭

I’m not sure how I managed to fall in love. You don’t exactly plan on some cheeky little cherub with an archery kink shooting you in the ass with a love dart.

Idk if someone wrote a love article to me and showed the world idk if I could handle it

The day he tried to kill himself. The noose. The knot that slipped. He wasn’t the one who’d tied that knot at all. And Vance Haydn’s as sloppy a murderer as he is a man.

OMG HE ATTEMPTED MURDER

And I’m stunned again when I see my mother came. Never mind the little looks she and Dad keep giving each other, like shy teenagers with a crush... Okay, what’s going on?

give them a book

I didn’t even tweet it or post a word on Facebooger.

FACEBOOGER