The Girl Who Couldn't Come by Joey Comeau

Author:Joey Comeau [Comeau, Joey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary
ISBN: 9781460920145
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2011-02-16T13:00:00+00:00

I’m impatient.

Nine-fifteen on a Tuesday night, and I’m blurry-eyed drunk on the sidewalk with a broken boy. We look like assholes. I have an erection.

“Fuck that house,” he says, lifting the bottle to point. “David used to live there,” he says. “I went to school with him. He gave me this.” He lifts his arm, showing me his elbow, but I don’t see anything. “He had a baseball bat.” He pauses and takes a drink. We stand and stare at the house, at the blue television light in the downstairs window. “I’ve never been so scared,” he says, quieter. He takes another drink and then looks at me. “Hey,” he says. “Is your arm still bleeding?”

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