Marshall Thornton

“Um…you’re four blocks away. Why can’t you walk?”“I’m naked.” Sometimes the truth was like a band-aid in needof removal; one had to get it over with as quickly as possible.“And I’m sitting in a bougainvillea bush.”Jason was silent. Even his silence sounded angry. Praline knewhe should have sent a text.”

“Nice people always make me want to do bad things.”

“He'd already identified me as a heathen, and I hoped he wouldn't try to change that.”