Jonathan Carrillo

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“Instances of Pleasure” by Jonathan Carrillo

Submitted to Contest #182

There’s a loud ringing in my ears and I know that it’s the alarm but I don’t want to get out of bed yet, so I let it ring, ring, ring until its chirp is so loud that I can feel droplets of blood slipping down my earlobe. My eyes open slowly to a blank, grey room covered in unframed Basquiat and Lichtenstein paintings and motivational statements that I don’t identify with. A minute passes before I remember that it’s my bedroom. The sheets smell vaguely of piss and the door to the hall is cracked open and there’s a light, flickering down at th...

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Writer, 23, NYC.