the bar

some love is about agreeing to pretend the same untrue things are true

big nick’s was perfect and it was definitely not a bar

this is an excerpt from a novel I’ve been working on for [file not found] years (too many years, enough years that I’m embarrassed). In 2020, I essentially started over with it from a blank page, and now I’m going back and adding in some older material to a mostly new draft. It’s a weird process, and…