The smell of human grief gets particularly stronger in the hospital at night.
“...You are at the Advocate Medical Center Crisis Rape Center. My name is Tanya. I am a social worker, and I will accompany you until your discharge... An ambulance picked you up from the street, in the Boystown area. You were lying unconscious on the sidewalk, near the Fairy Tail nightclub; no outerwear, no pants, nor underwear… Curtis? That's your name, isn't it?"
"My name is Ian Gallagher."
In August, Mickey escapes his wedding, renounces a fictitious relationship, signs a chastity pact and heads to the airport. And then, as the Italians say, "Tutte le strade portano a Roma."
This story is about the breath of life with the berry aftertaste of Passito di Pantelleria wine, about the transience of time with lemon notes of magnolia blossoms, about the thrill of first kisses with the cool sweetness of creamy Gelato.
This story is about a man and his great love.
«I was dancing in this club... Blew guys for 50 bucks»
«I danced in a strip club, and I worked the back of the house as much as the front.»
Gorgeous art of FiloX added with arter's permission https://twitter.com/KittyconvoyFilo/status/1396351740258131968?s=20
What if that day, Ian ventured to experiment with a woman he would have met in the train not a leopard tank chick, but someone else?
Atmosphere super-cute artwork by FiloX https://i.ibb.co/44HHPqt/rmw-S3-Ci-W-jpg-large.jpg