Status Updates From Orpheus Builds a Girl

“It is not hard to see a mans darkest desires. No matter how cleverly they think they hide it, you can always see it, plain as day.”
“But when the rest of the world tells you that your loved one will die, the man holding out a bottle of snake oil looks like a priest with holy water.”

The urge to vomit

She was like a child in so many ways, so delicate and afraid, but the very thought of her roused hitherto unexplored parts of my physical being as well as my romantic heart… It was as if my grandmother had presented to me the means of my own ruin—and, worse, had told me I could have it. In such ways I thought of the exotic girl: a being to be taken and yet one which possessed so much power.

Yeah man I totally believe your racist grandma came to you as a ghost and said a little Columbian girl who wasnt even born at the time said she is your ‘promised bride’