Dan Quiet

You can draw whatever you want forever

Coming out (2026)

31 Days of Halloween!

you've always been haunting yourself. holding a funeral for your inevitable drowning in a dried-up lake.

you make your bed before you head off to your death. because you're sixteen and everything is out of your control. you sit on your neighbor's bed as his wife switches on the camcorder. because you're private, just like your mother and her mother before her. your room is so neat and there's a man sitting in the dark.

so many men in your room, all uninvited. yelling at all of them to get out. your mother walks into other people's houses because she wants to exist in other lives.

she walks into your room. she leaves.

they can't find the people who hurt you, and it wouldn't matter if they did. because it's clear that you were a willing participant. your boyfriend gets on camera and says there's no way he would've been dating you if he'd known. you exist in old photos, as a fuzzy blur on a vhs tape. your desires and dreams are all lost in translation. your best friend doesn't know what to make of you anymore. you didn't know what to make of you.

happy pride month