@castlewrote said: “ I’ve had nightmares all my life, but they’ve been really bad recently. ”
the night was like a detached jaw before them. expansive, swallowing. crickets were having their fun, singing the darkness away as smoke billows between the two men. settled would be a good word for them now. firmly joined but still, old devils linger. he hadn’t been able to sleep either, not for a day. or two ? but once again when he’d managed to lay down beside the man he drifted for an hour, before he was startlingly awake, again. so when the back porch door had opened, he welcomed the company.
“ might be trying to tell you something. ” he says between drags of the cigarette. mine do, he neglects to say.