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that he thought he was the shit was kind of hot. sure it was juvenile but so were they. frail children standing on the edge of the world about to fall off or in.

and as they plunged he flailed aloofly. seemingly unaware of the ground.

she bailed out and scraped a leg.

he was quite seriously maimed. the jolt reverberated through the rest of his life. stagnant, angry, he blundered off into a slow and unremarkable oblivion.

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