Dressed as a tightrope walker.

She dared to walk the tightrope without a net.

So I just created the widest tightrope in the world.

And a few days later, I was practicing on a single tightrope.

lobster claw boys and bearded ladies, oddities juggling depression and loneliness, playing solitaire, spin the bottle, trying to kiss the wounded parts of ourselves and heal, but at night, while the others slept, we kept walking the tightrope.