The Four Spent the Day Together by Chris Kraus

Author:Chris Kraus [Kraus, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scribe Publications Pty Ltd
Published: 2025-09-29T00:00:00+00:00

One night that spring Catt’s friend Eloise called, hysterical and panicked. Her boyfriend had just died of an overdose on her kitchen floor . . . she’d called 911 and watched the paramedics zip him up into the bag and wheel the gurney out to the street. Once a prodigious art-world phenomenon, Eloise was a great artist who’d pretty much lost her career to poverty, drugs, and mental illness. Since she and Catt had drifted apart Catt read her call as a crisis. Her first thought was to ask Paul to step in. She had no idea of the extent of Paul’s drinking yet and he and Eloise had gotten along whenever they’d met. Catt was in awe of Paul’s gift for connecting with people who suffered acute mental illness on their own terms, in a genuine way.

When Paul arrived he found Eloise huddled in back of the small storefront cave where she was living. The room was covered with artworks she’d recently made even though she no longer had a career. She was completely distraught but still, the idea of receiving a therapy house call struck her as funny. They sat in the kitchen together—the same spot where she’d tried to revive her dead boyfriend less than twenty-four hours before—smoking a joint and winding down to a point where she could even consider what happened. Her long hair was matted and her arms were scarred with infected bedbug bites. Paul wondered if Eloise expected him to make the first move, was that what was happening? Well okay, that’s better, Eloise sighed. But also maybe a pill? Within two weeks she’d be dead of an intentional overdose. She giggled and opened the bottle. You want one? The pill, a thirty-milligram oxy, was fantastic. Why had he been so cautious? The pill brought him back into the zone that he’d craved since that first sip of sake.

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