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"Craig, we're not talking about this."
. . .
"Please. Pretend I'm dying."
"God. You are so melodramatic."
"Heh. Yeah."

"Well. . . I've had them for years. Just less intense. I thought they were, you know, just a part of growing up."
"Suicidal feelings."
I nodded.
Dr. Barney stared at me... Who hasn't thought about killing themselves, as a kid? How can you grow up in this world and not think about it?

...but I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?

Night is here except for a thin gray at the edge of the sky and the tree are thick with rain and the drizzle is pissing on me as I come up to my house.

"Yeah. It's simple."
"You like simple."
"Doesn't everybody?"

"I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad... like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare."
"And what is that nightmare, Craig?"
"Life."

"Yeah." I move the muscles that make me smile. "I'm just... kinda... you know..."
You see how rhe words work? They betray your mouth and walk away.