nothing happens by accident

some prefer that coincidence

Nothing

         she told him if he kept it upwasnt keeping anything up shed known him sixseven months moved into the apartment next door of course their paths would cross exchange courtesies rousted one unwanted male attentionintention

                                                                                                            if he kept it up hed alienate even people closest to him he didnt tip his hand tell her his people were twentytwohunred miles away

Wha you a mental health worker

turns out a social worker completing a degree in psychology

thats where she got alienation

wasnt in his vernacularknew it

                                  but he read an awful lot

found books to be better friends

they could keep confidences

was pretty sure that wasnt the alienationalikenation she was talking about

he told her he appreciated her intentions but no thank you

                                                               since

shes avoided him

alienation

he finished another Bruen book

                                 last time he chased works of a writer were Hemingway Joyce Miller an Nin Cormac McCarthy Marlon James Ta-Nehisi Coates China Mieville

“My existence of alienation even then was in full flow.”

their words spoke to him

no accidents

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