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Vague, grey prayers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/074a2a6a-18b3-4e7a-b8a7-b09829b37322/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+3.35.19%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #51 I told him it was good, even though I still didn’t really know what to think of it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/88375ce4-bf8d-40b8-96e5-5052ec595638/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+3.58.54%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #61 His eyes saying about a million words but none I understood https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/add8d2b0-37fa-4db5-8081-a83f3f182cb4/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+4.41.25%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #71 I ate my s*****e note in the hospital bathroom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/1d61029d-94d4-4c64-8025-10915ff18746/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+5.01.27%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #81 He sounded like he was reciting something he had memorized. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/3e01b431-72a2-48c2-b073-25738e97877f/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+5.16.34%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #91 He smiled with sad eyes and said he was sorry about everything. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/b99a9ba4-cbc2-45a1-95c5-1478b0f0d03a/20241203_145432.jpg Work - TTYL, Love You No 2. She flipped me Alabaster and lukewarm, Steady https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/db017c38-13b3-4e21-8d31-01abe68ce04f/Screenshot+2025-09-20+at+9.11.38%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #12 Ever since the previous weekend, I couldn’t not worry about him https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/07df2057-8fe4-4b0a-8a95-ce7127adedf5/Screenshot+2025-09-20+at+9.45.16%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #22 The air was like a flu and it twisted my dreams https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/4244dfe8-3de0-4978-b563-d59e68a0384d/Screenshot+2025-09-20+at+10.00.43%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #32 My heart coiled and I began to shake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/1b319432-5cea-4e30-8488-36f9280a6eb8/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+3.22.24%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #42 Making the world soft and bearable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/5b498d01-2044-4b3c-b78d-bebac84d6269/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+3.36.46%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #52 The world’s too dark for detail. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/c6453918-ed83-4fac-8a31-f97d8fa1f10e/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+4.00.14%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #62 We didn’t talk at all on the walk back to the neighborhood https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/848a94e8-b846-4550-bab6-f494038cf70a/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+4.47.58%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #73 He told me the planet had nerve endings. He told me he wished his mother had m*******ed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/c88bc0b6-49a9-4fed-afe0-a12403f3669d/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+5.02.42%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #82 Thank you.” I didn’t understand what she meant or why she was saying this. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/eb2baf89-8a11-4190-a90d-3528d181527d/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+5.17.30%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #92 Something cold and vacuous opened in my guts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/a12f995a-060c-4925-b811-20f0df3ef47a/20241204_142148.jpg Work - TTYL, Love You TTYL Love You #3 I got in her car and we drove around the lower town https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/075ce222-16f8-411e-ae94-9be5fb2cc119/Screenshot+2025-09-20+at+9.12.45%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #13 swung the door open and shambled into wet fever night https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/ade5cc8e-3205-4d06-888b-e20a268c4bc8/Screenshot+2025-09-20+at+9.46.20%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #23 It was all dull, ruptured magic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/8db27065-6242-4785-a8d8-2a260b9db16b/Screenshot+2025-09-20+at+10.01.46%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #33 Every state I've lived in after California has just been a place I sleep for a while. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/d8109878-0e7e-45b7-87c8-572923770cd1/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+3.23.34%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #43 The sun drowned behind the mountains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/32bd15f7-bb1c-4718-8c56-d89df5790c16/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+3.37.58%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #53 the streetlights bounced to fractals with every step, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/897f4b4d-1348-4ff0-ba7b-2b596bd5fed7/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+4.01.28%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #63 You fear the worst because you’d be stupid not to. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/8ae2a523-81c0-43a6-9840-2154728726df/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+4.50.02%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #74 She sank into the couch, catatonic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/fde53ab7-2dc4-4753-bfaa-da0ee1ec41ae/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+5.03.56%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #83 The library was small but monstrous. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/cf43f02b-3637-423f-90da-b317f00b1b4e/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+5.19.22%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #93 I slept in the indentation left by him. It was cold. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/2dcbd85e-fdda-40a2-bb1c-ee9bacaab2e1/Screenshot+2025-09-20+at+8.56.30%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #4 Dust playing off our skin in the warm nuclear light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/e98774a6-b633-4d69-81a8-1920967e9853/Screenshot+2025-09-20+at+9.15.05%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #14 I nodded. I didn’t press it. I wanted him to keep liking me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/08742cde-ff06-4475-a3b2-1f7fdfb57e19/Screenshot+2025-09-20+at+9.47.33%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #24 splattered clusters of pixels and polygons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/cc32cae8-7e8d-4801-a778-5f020bc6fb64/Screenshot+2025-09-20+at+10.02.44%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #34 I took a picture of myself and deleted it https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/dcd837cb-2806-44d9-9760-6c7938cdc95b/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+3.24.39%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #44 Church was a Mirror of Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/be1a7e8d-f9c0-41ba-9d47-8cdf55b33e0a/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+3.39.03%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #54 He gave another sad smile, as though he already knew the path that lay before me, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/0f8b0953-bb05-4013-87e7-b05df1c0aeb2/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+4.02.37%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #64 That’s when I realized she really loved me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/e840cd9a-4211-4e23-a3ee-e5b69403c417/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+4.51.14%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #75 Eyes empty in a blank face https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/a53bfe71-c192-44fa-857d-8209b632c0f8/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+5.05.06%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #84 The note in his back pocket read THE WORLD IS YOURS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/6af2f997-e87e-4bba-8ff3-51af4df322ad/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+5.20.31%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #94 We woke to pounding on the front door. It was an officer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/0565fff4-b60a-44de-8a6d-d7669de235b8/Screenshot+2025-09-20+at+8.59.09%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #5 I’d feel her walking across pavement, my feet vibrating in my shoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/bac04689-3ca8-4b76-861a-dfc99efae3d0/Screenshot+2025-09-20+at+9.16.23%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #15 I could feel him turning blue https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/63b55b90-8f21-4fad-865a-92beb9511bda/Screenshot+2025-09-20+at+9.48.42%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #25 It mattered to us tremendously. We were children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/71c8b4fa-68b1-4b14-bbf8-a7ab2bd07e70/Screenshot+2025-09-20+at+10.03.52%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #35 The painting looked like my insides. I couldn’t look away. I wanted to live inside it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/96a19366-f2a9-44ea-986a-221c13cfc562/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+3.25.45%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #45 He had this one song that made my heart churn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/fc556b70-6fd5-4a67-9daf-72b2972ab681/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+3.40.09%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #55 We went to the living room and sat on opposite ends of the couch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/09f179ce-8bd6-41b2-94ad-421e1982d3f3/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+4.04.58%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #65 The pictures put tiny holes in my insides. I breathed through each one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/47cb316d-2a52-47b2-b04a-6d5515b4536b/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+4.52.37%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #76 After like a month, he went back to normal, or maybe I just forgot what he’d been like before. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/64e59e52-3790-473b-86e9-12c27c16b363/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+5.06.14%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #85 I was raised to believe in divine intervention. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/9cf1f228-a8f3-4369-8334-5c25e9e77ce6/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+5.21.46%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #95 I wasn’t surprised by what he said. She didn’t cry until after he left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/6303f372-1ccf-457a-b89a-043cd5399a9b/Screenshot+2025-09-20+at+9.01.16%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #6 Our hands in our pockets. Alabaster and lukewarm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/77ef1db7-be34-499e-9d31-0a8631002730/Screenshot+2025-09-20+at+9.17.25%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #16 I slipped out through the screen door like a c-section https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/e27dcd15-fabf-4bd3-b45f-2765c128ffec/Screenshot+2025-09-20+at+9.51.02%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #26 I wasn't there but I can see it in my mind https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/122073da-73a5-4421-abb9-b8cc90e35bd6/Screenshot+2025-09-20+at+10.05.00%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #36 Rain needled dense against our car https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/b183d361-7f1c-4b6d-bda1-febe59bf0bea/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+3.28.02%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #46 When I told him I was coming to the show, he got all weird and quiet, like he didn’t want me to be there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/ebff2c98-30d9-44c7-b8e2-a6b31c3fd435/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+3.41.46%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #56 Every movement and breath made the skin on his face tighten. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/15c278f2-7dd4-4a09-b45a-67930d71a6e1/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+4.07.18%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #66 As I stepped through the front entrance my head was swallowed by a migraine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/89d725fd-ae5e-4147-b505-d4f1eb2a353e/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+4.54.26%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #77 We sat on the step and looked at our knees and shoes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/1421bf4c-9768-438b-a80e-4e9a4e7fad4a/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+5.08.40%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #86 it followed that if one book contained the word of God, others did too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/c4290eb3-21a0-4057-852f-9143c6a7a9bc/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+5.23.25%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #96 Something about his smile broke me in half. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/3c8de88b-b674-4fbc-9dc0-bbc40392cdca/Screenshot+2025-09-20+at+9.02.50%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #7 It smelled like dead plastic pine needles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/39f948d8-d9ab-43ac-8eff-a8854816e68f/Screenshot+2025-09-20+at+9.18.59%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #17 we sat there in the grass, watching the pines turn to fireworks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/32bb357b-7726-4b86-b0b0-fef48c3e2a82/Screenshot+2025-09-20+at+9.52.06%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #27 I could finally feel how little impact I’d ever have on the world https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/189ee8d2-e392-468d-917e-de1d58bfbf41/Screenshot+2025-09-20+at+10.17.00%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #37 His grin twisted my stomach, but I made myself be okay with it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/55a8e3e2-4e52-4ca4-be94-5326bf9c79c9/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+3.29.30%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #47 He saw me and gave a smile I couldn’t tell was forced or genuine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/f6c70c58-6b7a-4cf0-a6ec-ac1c7e0eb34f/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+3.43.45%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #57 I didn’t ask questions, just simmered blue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/50e3ab0c-21b0-49c3-bc32-0fc5990e8ee1/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+4.08.45%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #67 He brought me back downstairs and the three of us left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/76de4805-3624-43ba-9978-1d44069ef9fa/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+4.56.25%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #78 Her tone made me nauseous https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/42dcf139-7e64-4718-a386-21c181bf8823/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+5.09.53%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #87 I told her to call me if she needed anything, knowing full well that if she did reach out I’d ignore it, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/d4a0b1dc-3f1b-4b0c-a37f-2d9f71f840ef/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+5.27.33%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #97 I moved all his things out of her room. His clothes smelled like coffee, beer and sweat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/07d27dd1-463f-4b65-a15e-e3d1f63122c0/Screenshot+2025-09-20+at+9.04.03%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #8 Like a computer programmed only to feel sorry for itself https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/351d7485-5601-4aef-9bc9-d73f69d52253/Screenshot+2025-09-20+at+9.21.38%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #18 I reached the house, and no one was there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/218defda-a30e-4123-8971-ea95871e64d6/Screenshot+2025-09-20+at+9.53.35%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #28 The realization that I could simply leave and the world wouldn’t miss me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/21148810-b8b0-44c0-93ea-6f01da3e8423/Screenshot+2025-09-20+at+10.18.26%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #38 What forces are we unable to sense that nonetheless influence our existence? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/914d5e4e-a35e-4190-a687-b33a740d1d72/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+3.30.34%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #48 making the space feel off-balance and underwater. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/242485f2-2c5b-43eb-bd6b-0c80698787b6/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+3.46.32%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #58 “You really should probably go to the hospital or something.” “Hospitals are fucking stupid.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/8d76bf9c-94b4-4230-8a72-5fb2516b8cdc/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+4.10.06%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #68 I couldn’t imagine another body, another choked heartbeat, or strange, slow smile filling that gap. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/a025fd84-95bc-4374-a040-59d106d6b9e4/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+4.57.26%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #79 I fell weak into terrible dreams. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/2ce0da1f-afb0-434e-a7b6-96293cd6a994/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+5.10.54%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #88 The entire house was filled with grey clouds https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/9f383ab6-45d8-44c2-92d7-11fad59ecc54/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+5.29.11%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #98 It’s amazing how quickly everyone makes you go back to normal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/1475496f-19aa-4cf8-bd9e-0fa6aa1094b0/Screenshot+2025-09-20+at+9.05.29%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #9 We watched prank videos on his computer, laughing, even at the ones that twisted me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/38c09275-9b28-432f-a933-92f3b04ab7cd/Screenshot+2025-09-20+at+9.22.49%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #19 It felt like all the Earth’s oxygen was tearing apart. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/00f801d9-5470-4aa2-9582-c46c59a96f9c/Screenshot+2025-09-20+at+9.55.00%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #29 everyone around me felt as hollow as balloons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/631d7b2f-7073-4f3d-90ea-ff88cc8b8a87/Screenshot+2025-09-20+at+10.19.33%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #39 I ran my palms up his arms, feeling the ribs of his scar tissue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/8ddb76af-d480-4dd3-bf50-620d73a3e8cd/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+3.31.41%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #49 The people fell away, and I could almost see trees https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/78da0099-cc34-4a70-bbb8-f9ac009bb5e8/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+3.49.10%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #59 He stared right at me through the photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/f343788c-4a38-42c5-bcb1-9c26833faf0e/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+4.11.31%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #69 No other arms could ever fully engulf me and choke out the rest of the Earth’s hurt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/2c62830f-5e47-4367-871d-4c08b02655a8/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+4.58.20%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #80 I never really knew whether my parents loved me or not. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/4c31dc1d-fdc5-4747-880d-a2de7f3e621f/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+5.12.09%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #89 A bleak, anonymous dread crept through my spine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/2119a168-73e8-4a96-b5d8-eb718e69275f/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+5.30.36%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #99 It felt like fate. But I never would have told her that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/f5ff23e5-bc73-4134-966e-9b8e682d9909/Screenshot+2025-09-20+at+9.06.46%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #10 He rocked gently back and forth on my bed, staring at my walls. Never at me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/8a9b7697-89e4-4f8f-83fb-82b15521fd39/Screenshot+2025-09-20+at+9.24.00%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #20 the lights looked like jellyfish and fireflies, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/8af63ab4-7d5a-411d-a656-066d403e67dc/Screenshot+2025-09-20+at+9.56.30%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #30 Sometimes it seemed like I was the only person who felt anything https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/a62db057-4dff-4899-ba9c-86b3ce41fcc2/Screenshot+2025-09-20+at+10.20.50%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #40 My words became her pillows. Words that once belonged to her. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/723ac4d7-9017-4f91-830e-85c94b35b3c2/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+3.33.03%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #50 By doing so I was taking pieces of him home to keep safe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/0d84c761-d4bd-4891-9360-6fe18a525230/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+3.50.16%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #60 I knew that if I left now I’d only be alone with the images repeating in my head https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/eba1c15c-b350-489c-8e00-a2666b8cb2e1/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+4.12.45%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #70 They found a note in his back pocket but the ink had been washed away. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/e580edeb-10d8-400b-8af7-e491b4825c63/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+5.13.50%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #90 I typed out fuck you, then deleted it and wrote yea and pressed send https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ada8d71776560c5697c57c/4c7437c1-17aa-4829-9cfd-6dd80aed2bee/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+5.31.34%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - TTYL, Love You #100 Her voice was bright but off