The Love Boat

Niles Reddick

The nurse added that she hoped she had thwarted another outbreak of STDs, unlike their nursing home competitor in town.

The unknown boy, that uninvited new friend, showed his freckled face, sang a cumbia with us, and drank from our glass. He became light in a blink.

Days of Vagrant Youth

We sit around drinking poison
that’ll give half of us
cancer
and the other, madness,
mistaking ill euphoria for
wisdom of the moment.

We’re

As my passion for tweeting grew, my grip on reality subsided.

October 2, 2026 |

He said his responses were never good enough for her, that she made him feel like an asshole.

October 2, 2026 |

Maybe she didn’t need to map it all onto some existing story.

October 1, 2026 | Fiction

Warm from the soup and already forgetting what we drove through, I pick up a copy of The Pearl, by Steinbeck.

Love is like a museum. You have to look around, experience things, and then leave.

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