Status Updates From Beloved

I love that the character say “make tracks” instead of leave. Adding her to the vernacular.

1:06pm 9/17/26

Saying more might push them both to a place they couldn't get back from. He would keep the rest where it belonged: in that tobacco tin buried in his chest where a red heart used to be. Its lid rusted shut. He would not pry it loose now in front of this sweet sturdy woman, for if she got a whiff of the contents it would shame him.

"Hey! Listen up. Let me tell you something. A man ain't a goddamn ax. Chopping, hacking, busting every goddamn minute of the day. Things get to him. Things he can't chop down because they're inside."

“How did she know.”

Honestly so spooky
Still completely intriguing and absolutely confusing