Saturday, August 22, 2020

Toxic

Just written:


And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. – Friedrich Nietzsche

 

It was beyond toxic.

 

It put my marriage and my sanity at risk.

 

It wore flannel and had tattoos.

 

It will come back if I don’t prevent it.

 

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Marcus called him a tarantula. “He’s a fucking tarantula, Allison,” he said. We were sitting at The Mansion, a diner not far from his apartment on the Upper East Side.

 


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