I have a photograph of her in my mind, that pout, the way the light poured in from the edges of the window, the orange darkness of the hotel room. I always kept the curtains closed.
Her hair was longer than the last time. She looked older when she took off her glasses, but only up close. There was a box of kleenex on the headboard next to the mirror and two cans in the mini-refrigerator, one iced coffee, one orange juice. I could tell she was about to cry.
We left the hotel, plastic leaves hanging tattered and covering the entrance like uncombed hair. We caught a cab, got out and went into a restaurant, and then left without ordering. We got into another cab, I forget why. I think we were looking for breakfast. It seemed important at the time.
When it was over she left in a huff. I don’t think she was as angry as she tried to be. When I ran onto the street after her I could see her looking back, waiting. She made me pay for the cab home and wouldn’t kiss me goodbye. I guess I deserved it.
I went back to the hotel and got drunk with my buddy. We laughed about it all, found some other girls, got drunker. The next morning we went to Seoul Station and took the train back to Busan. I cried the whole fucking way.
- Nelson
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STREET BONER 1118
Just to be clear, this is not a hole in her tights. It’s a hole in the ass-time continuum that will swallow your entire paycheck if you go near it.
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huh, that was actually well written
07.10.09 at 10:17 am
so today is a joke, yes?
07.10.09 at 10:48 am
Holy shit, that picture is Homeless Frank – he was killed with a turkey drumstick. Stabbed to death.
07.10.09 at 11:31 am
no for seriously where is that picture from? I see it all the time I know but I totally dont know where its from.
07.10.09 at 12:29 pm
i hope the person who wrote this gets hit by a bus today.
just another faggot like WILL.I.AM
07.10.09 at 12:40 pm
Wow, I have been following this site for a long time and I have to say… that was the most pathetic, feeble, GAY SHIT I have read. FUCK YOU YOU FUCKING FAGGOT for taking the time out of your miserable, meaningless existence to smear the world with your own self-abomination and misery. Why don’t you kill yourself and spare the rest of us from having to share your own masturbatory self-inflicted hatred. You fucking LOSER. I hope you die a long and protracted death in a manner that keeps you from being able to whine to the rest of the world about it, you fucking piece of SHIT.
07.10.09 at 5:32 pm
what up with all the boring confessionals, mang. or fiction or whatever tha fuck
07.10.09 at 8:25 pm
to the author: you must be huffing glue
07.10.09 at 8:37 pm
Another good one, Nelson.
07.10.09 at 8:40 pm
YA NO KIDDING I THOUGHT THIS SITE WAS CALLED STREETBONERSANDTVCARNAGE NO I AM A FAG WHO CRIES AND THIS IS MY STORY
07.10.09 at 8:43 pm
hey fagoot……….
EAT A DICK!!!!
you fucking FAGGOTTTT!!!
07.10.09 at 11:17 pm
YOU FUCKIN FAG GO EAT A COCK YOU FUCKING PEACE OF DICIK SUCKIN FAGGOT ASS SHIT YOU ARE THE REASON WHY WOMEN TUR N INTO MEN YOU FUCKCN PEICE OF SHIT
FUC KIN FAGGOT GO DIE SOMEWHERE TONITE I WILL PAY YOU FIVE BRAZILLIAN DOLLERS TO DIE IF YOU PROMISE NO NMORE ARTICLE S SUBMITTED U FUCKING FAGGOT
GO DIE SOMWHERE DA SUN DONT SHINE NOONE WANT TO HEAR YU WHINE YOU FUCKING FAGGOT
GO DIE!!@!!!
07.10.09 at 11:23 pm
never let this bitch submit again i assure you this shit is gayer than lady gaga’s backing crwe next time he submits something tell him to go choke himself on a fuckin chocolate riverbed this fucking FAGGOT let him kell himself i’m sure he’s not original enoguh to come up with it himseof PUSH HIM OVER THE EDGE the fag surely won’t say know if you tel him so
07.10.09 at 11:25 pm
KILL YOURSELF
07.10.09 at 11:26 pm
KILL YOURSELF!!!
07.10.09 at 11:27 pm
But how do you really feel?
07.11.09 at 1:48 am
NO HOMO, but–this was a pleasure to read, Like a postcard. A little sentimental and melodramatic but thats the style and it works because it’s short.
Faggy? What is this, the fifties?
HEY GAVIN, I think more diverse content on this site is a good step in the right evolution. Everything doesn’t have to be so fucking abrasive and hip and tough it makes you defensive and insecure just to read it. Maybe softness is the NEW edgy.
07.11.09 at 2:45 am
I feel sorry for this person when I think about them sitting at their computer for a long time and writing this thing, whittling all their little phrases down into what they think are pithy, poignant observations, thinking like, “I know Street Boners is normally more crass than this, but the people who read the site will appreciate a well written, insightful look into a key part of my life, which I may or may not have made up.”
Nope.
07.11.09 at 6:41 am
^^ “a good step in the right evolution???” Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
07.11.09 at 6:44 am
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Paragraph 5: limply poetic, concluding sentence attempt to be sincere/edgy, insertion of curse word nod to usual SBTVC tone
Stop writing, please, “Nelson Peters.” You are worse than a person who uses terrible grammar and is not smart, because you think you are talented and smart, when you are completely mediocre. Please spare us all, really. Please!
07.11.09 at 6:55 am
is that johnny knoxville?
07.11.09 at 8:47 pm
so did you fuck her or what
07.12.09 at 4:10 am
i liked it.
07.12.09 at 6:17 pm
is this ‘joke week’??
never in my wildest dreams have i ever written something so SHIT
and i have written some shitty things believe me.
Again, start with print media. I know its ‘dying’ but that just means its even tougher to get published, which will make your ‘writing’ better. that is if you can stick it out. which i dont think you will.
This shit never should have made it out of your smelly little teenage diary you keep under your mattress with the same dirty teenage mutant ninja turtles sheets you’ve had since you were seven.
or just leave it on your myspace and hope that someone ‘discovers’ you.
Also try and get punched in the face a lot of times. like every weekend. get out, fist fight, and then write.
07.12.09 at 10:46 pm
and tell your fucking friends to fuck off
07.12.09 at 10:47 pm
& now i feel bad for saying mean things about some kids hard work..
07.13.09 at 4:32 am
that waaassss reeeaaaalllyy baaaaadddd
07.13.09 at 7:44 am
naw i liked that
07.15.09 at 1:57 am