He saw her across the room. Even through the dim lighting and stuffy haze of his own muddled thoughts recognized her. Even though she was clearly one of those group, social druggies, surrounded by other exceedingly loud or exceedingly companionable, rosy-faced drunks, and completely on the opposite side from him, he could still make out her familiar face.
He knew her, or she reminded him of someone, or something, that he couldn't identify.
Whatever it was, it made him cringe. But he couldn't stop his eyes from moving right back to
her: there was a certain grace about how she handled herself, how she seemed to be constantly
simultaneously balancing her drink and the entire table of people in one controlled hand. He
wondered why she didn't switch now and then to the left hand; it would've made everything a lot
easier to just give up everything she had to the balancing. She was so in control and still
invisibly bound. The ambivalence was the most infuriating part: he wanted something she had,
and hated her for having it.
[...] A sociological account of a ‘day in the life' of a drug. 1 He saw her across the room. Even through the dim lighting and stuffy haze of his own muddled thoughts he recognized her. Even though she was clearly one of those group, social druggies, surrounded by other exceedingly loud or exceedingly companionable, rosy-faced drunks, and completely on the opposite side from him, he could still make out her familiar face. He knew her, or she reminded him of someone, or something, that he couldn't identify. [...]
[...] She turns around, glares at the room, and turns back. He's back to fisting his glass. She takes a breath and leans forward again onto the counter. He slowly slides his beer across to her. “So what do you go by these days?” he asks. She pulls the drink in front of her, cupping the glass in both hands. “Usually she calls me I'm Alcohol. Sometimes I'm her Help, sometimes I'm their biggest Threat.” She takes a sip. “Sometimes I think I'm just her father. [...]
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