“He smelled like alcohol and a bad dream.”
“The alcohol smell is on my fingers, cold and remote, piercing like a steel pin going in. It smells like white enamel basins. When I look up at the stars in the nighttime, cold and white and sharp, I think they must smell like that.”
“His tall, lanky body had the wrinkles of sleep, and he smelled like cotton and dreams.”
“Although he, like all people, secretely enjoyed the smell of his own farts, the smell of his shit was somethig else. It was so bad as to seem evil in a moral way.”
“Just to keep the bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death.”
“My clothes from last night smell of smoke, alcohol, shame and regret.”