“ She was no stripper with a heart of gold, that was for sure. A heart of steel, more like. ”
Instead, I opened my eyes to find the thing in front of my face, wafting dead horse breath across my chin and up my nose, its mouth like a gaping maw; its eyes, two giant wormholes, twisting and bending with some apparitional substance that could have been space and time if I’d known anything about physics.
~ Shannon Celebi
It’s not like I planned it. I never woke up from some rosy dream and said, “Okay, world, today I’m gonna spaz.
She also understood there was a hole in her heart where her son should be, that she was a wicked, selfish woman for wishing him back.
We didn’t want to admit it then, but we were friends. Best friends.
