HeyJaredDilapidatedFlower
Love letters to ghosts, journals, and occasional bad decisions.
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- Jul 6, 2026
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even my thorns have been worn off (opens the original)
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The Last Mark (opens the original)
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The house became so quiet.Not empty.Quiet.There is a difference.Empty is a place waiting for someone to fill it. Quiet is a place that already knows they never will.The hallway looked smaller than I remembered. The paint had faded. The hardwood still creaked in the same places, almost like the house hadn’t realized it had grown old.I walked into my bedroom first.The posters were gone. The shelves were naked. There was still a small hole in the wall where we’d wrestled one summer and I pushed him
The Men We Become (opens the original)
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The Nightman (opens the original)
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You’d sit at the counter,Take the ice cubes from my shaker,Asking what I was making,Before I even knew myself.I’d tell you to trust me.You always did.A splash of this.A spritz of that.A twist of orange.Smoke in the glass.Stir.Never shake.I liked getting drunk with you.Not the liquor.The place between the first sip and the last laugh.That time when stress melted into the chair.We’d get smashed.Then we’d stumble home together.Holding onto each other.Taking breaks to gaze at each o
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