Casey O'

I got traded for some obnoxious tarts with names like Brandski and Malozzi while I lived in a house made out of garbage and it was cool to talk a mile a fucking minute so long as it wasn't about anything and don't use more than five syllables in any sentence if you can help it. 

The horse left. 

The horse isn't coming home. 

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  1. obvnoApril 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM

    I thought to write a quick story about
    this 50-year-old man who befriends
    some kids in their early-twenties in
    an unimpressive rural town in theearly-2000s.
    the man initially meets them through
    one of the guys, named Josh, who
    goes to independent/anarchistic
    open-door events in Connecticut with
    his friend Jason.

    and Josh--being a drunk who spends
    his money faster than it's earned--
    becomes momentarily out of couches
    to sleep on and doesn't want to go back
    to his family's, so after meeting this
    50-year-old man and appreciating
    the man's commitment to points of view
    critical of the U.S. Government, stays
    with the man for a harshly-brief
    duration before feeling unreasonably put-upon
    and annoyed and harassed by the 50-year-old man's
    advances.

    and then the Josh character moves back into
    his friend Rich's house where cycles of
    debauchery & poverty win the day on nearly
    all days--and later, when the Rich character
    gets a ticket...in the middle of the night...for
    doing a U-turn without signaling on an empty
    road with his train-ride sober friends, the Rich
    character ends up having to do community
    service at the local recycling center
    and one day his friend Casey doesn't pick
    him up and this unnamed 50-year-old man
    offers to drive him, instead.

    despite should've knowing better, the Rich
    character likes talking to this lecherous
    older fellow, because he talks about more
    than how many girls he (hasn't) fucked or how
    many Skittles he can devour in a single
    sitting.or reciting every single word of
    every single joke on the last episode
    of Chappelle Show. (Chappelle Show also
    exists in this parallel dimension where
    the story I was going to write takes place.)

    and initially the 50-year-old man and Rich
    have a lot to talk about: Rich can be
    a spaz and a nerd and is wholly infatuated
    with Hunter S. Thompson and Charles Bukowski,
    and he doesn't have a lot of people who listen
    to much if it goes on for longer than
    twenty minutes, let alone hours on multiple days.

    but sometime after the Rich character
    moves out of New York and back to New York
    he moves in with this old guy and the old guy
    gets on his nerves like it's a religious obligation,
    and after a year of this bi-polar horseshit,
    Rich has the sense to stay away from this man
    altogether.

    it doesn't last, of course. and so for
    several years the two of them participate
    in this pathetic charade of old man/young man
    and it takes the 50-year-old man posting
    extremely humiliating photos of the Rich
    character on facebook and the Rich character
    eventually learning that this douchesack
    of a manchild has bugged Rich's email accounts
    and so forth to share with a decidedly large audience.
    I was going to write this story, but
    it all sounded so preposterous,
    like trying to make amends
    with your bitter father in the afterlife
    only to hear him carrying on about
    his penis-size in one way or another--
    so I decided to just write this instead.

    and then I wrote it.



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