Monday, August 4, 2014

A Story Not About NASA




He launched the beer bottle and grinned as it smashed on the pavement. He delighted that though destruction there lived creation – the tintinnabulation of glass, the glimmer in the street and a radical change of form. He drank to drunkenness and found himself in the mood for contemplative vandalism.

-What the fuck Charlie?

He didn’t say anything.

He had moved from being an oblivious child to a reckless teenager to an asshole in his early twenties with surprising ease. He felt little pressure to do otherwise and thus was shaped by the winds of inertia. Sometimes there were parties, sometimes there were bars and there, there were people, but mostly it was none of those things, just Charlie by himself. And it seemed he had become an expert a making jokes, when the situation called for something else. When he finally spoke conversations ended.