Status Updates From Nothing but the Rain

“You’re not old, Laverne, she kept saying. You’re only sixty-three! Thirtysomething bitch.”

Lol damn

“Every wall has been written on at least once, but there’s still a lot of room left; they don’t look anything like the walls of those horrible prison cells in the movies, where the psychopath’s been locked up and killed time by scribbling VENGEANCE again and again, using his own blood in overlapping paragraphs of insanity. My craziness hasn’t taken over yet. So it can’t have been that long.”

Oh

“I remember a time the rivers turned burgundy for a week, and if you drank the water you went raving mad like a bat with rabies. Now that was trending for a while on the local news. Headlines all said LET MY PEOPLE GO! along with other Old Testament jokes, because those are always hilarious.”

Who's drinking burgundy river water???

“Now I know for sure I’m not losing my name anytime soon, which is always a comfort. It could happen, but if I lose that it means I’ve lost everything else, and there won’t be enough of me left to worry about what happens next.”

Damn that really sucks

“...Must have happened over and over again, layers and layers of amnesia, forgetting that we were forgetting at all. And so we went in a daze through blurry, shapeless days, before we finally began to realize there was something in the water.”

It's always something in the water