Tragic Stories I Began to Write But It Turned Out They Were Only Tragic Tweets

molly otto
Jul 29, 2017 · 1 min read
  1. I thought about visiting a town you shared a name with, just so you might love me.
  2. With a crisp white shirt just picked up from the laundromat swaying in his hand, he boarded a city bus.
  3. The closest I could come to your house in years was a trip to the hospital on Father’s Day.
  4. She sat at her keyboard, troubled by the opus she had just written on her family. This, she thought, is why people write fiction.
  5. They blasted holes into mountains and built new land out of landfill just to make this place livable.
  6. Baby girl, one day you’re gonna have to be nineteen.

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