Animal: A Novel

Having come from nowhere, you will be more surely heading somewhere.

May you not go around the world looking to fill what you fear you lack with the flesh of another human being. That’s part of what this story is for.

Okay, I said, thinking of the way the young feared need.

When men tell you they are pieces of shit, when they tell you they are scumbags, they do it because they subconsciously know that you are hooked. It hooks you more. They push you away to pull you in and the most terrible thing is they don’t even do it on purpose.

It’s what you think you are missing inside of yourself. I promise that you are missing nothing.

inures

inert.