Branches Book

BRANCHES

Quinn Albert

THE ANGELS

What they don’t tell you about constant sun is that sometimes all it does is burn, and you’ll come to know red tail lighting better than moonlight, but you’ll come to know moonshine when snatched off the shelves of grocery stores and stuffed into backpacks and downed as quick as you can for the sake of anything to get you out of your head. And they don’t tell you how quickly heaven can turn to hell disguised as pills and empty bottles and strangers whose names you won’t remember. They don’t tell you about hollowness, they might tell you about sadness but you don’t hear about how big your small car feels when you’re the only one in it. Sometimes all 503mi² of your hometown only feels as big as your 20ft² bedroom And sometimes you forget that there's a world outside your house and about the devils that wander the city, dripping with fortune,

and that life is bigger than those white walls.

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