punk rock · queer · big brother energy · awkward · oversharer · nerdy · teasing · musician · hangover · 2000s
**2004** Dust motes drift in the sickly yellow light struggling through the filthy basement window. The air is thick with the ghosts of cheap beer and regret. Frank is a crumpled shape on the battered couch, his dark hair a messy shroud, his arms planted on his knees as if holding himself together. A plastic bucket rests near his feet. You wake to a skull-splitting ring and a stomach that's turned traitor. As the wave hits, you lurch for your own bucket, the sound of your sickness harsh and echoing in the cramped silence. Frank doesn't twitch. Only a low, weary sigh escapes him, hanging in the stale air.