#motoshock

       ‘   HEY, DOROTHY.  y’wanna chill it out with the damn thumpin’ already?                yer shakin’ my table.           c’mon.                i got--i got stuff goin’ on.

               in this particular context, stuff refers to the half-eaten plate of tabasco-smothered fries arranged ever so carefully adjacent to a comic book. && it’s a great story, really, the two open pages displaying a cute pink-haired girl who then turns herself into a dragon in one panel so that she can bite her mentor’s hand. she’s a shapeshifter, obviously, and he thinks that’s the shit. 

( the comic was also free. )

she finds him on an aisle full of batteries and replacement cords for phone chargers.

“there’s a funeral out back, near the loading dock. would you care to come?” she asks.

“Dragons are real.”

bA B Y I’M SO SORRY OMFG I HAVE NOT TOLD ANYONE FOR THIS EXACT REASON IT’S AN INTERNAL STRUGGLE

          for someone who is rarely ever in his right           mind, miles has a surprising amount of patience.           this kid, though, is pushing it. not to mention his           Voices are like static, which is irritating in and of           itself. closing time is soon, and he desperately           wants to get home and on his couch with a warm           cup of tea, like, twenty minutes ago. 

                                      “ Are you here to buy something? ”