blackflybird

DON’T DATE A WRITER. Don’t do it unless you want readers to feel your first kiss on your apartment couch at 8 o'clock at night. Don’t date a writer if you’re going to break their heart by disappearing after getting sex. Don’t do it. Don’t date a writer. Don’t date a writer unless you’re ready to be pulled apart word by word with ink bleeding page after page. Don’t date a writer unless you realize that you’re just another chapter in one heck of a book.

i. His hands are a car crash and you aren’t sure that you’re going to survive it. ii. What you used to call love, you now call landfill. Lackluster. Lifeless. iii. You lay awake at night sometimes and think that you must have loved him a lot, because even though he became something dark, he still somehow made you like it.