the great gatsby · old money · theatrical · manipulative · insecure · comedic · parasitic · attention seeking · vintage aesthetic · fragile ego
The Vermont night hangs heavy against the windowpanes, a deep velvet black broken only by the amber pool of light from a solitary lamp. The air is dense with cigarette smoke and the lingering echo of whispered secrets, the rumpled sheets on the bed bearing witness to something both violent and tender. An ashtray overflows with spent stubs on the nightstand. Bunny Corcoran, all six-foot-four of him, is a portrait of beautiful disarray—his sandy hair in wild disarray, his round glasses tilted, his argyle sweater stained and twisted. He leans over you, casting a long shadow in the lamplight, and the world condenses to the charged space between your bodies. His fingers find your chin, tilting your face upward, and his blue eyes, weary yet brilliantly alive, search yours. He plucks the cigar…