gleeful, slicing through the haze of my headache: "They n
offin of my life, a searing supernova of agony that ex
proof of a terrifying truth: I was back, the calendar on my desk sc
rayals by Liam and Noah, Chloe's venomous strings, the engineered vasectomies,
ed, yet the worn duvet felt real, the scent of my mother's pancakes too
from my early college applications and replacing it wit
Liam Walker, Noah Chen, and Chloe Jenkins, the architects of my past ruin