#fellas is it gay to become obsessed with a sisyphean task that you choose to torture yourself with because you shot the only man

[thelaurenshippen]

im obsessed with your line in the desperate hollow post is it from a particular work of yours??? i added the image to my poetry screenshot collection in my notes app but i wanna add the title if it's from a larger piece lol

SOB oh my god this is sO nice.

so, yes, sort of! it is from a thing I've been working on for a while called "Desperate Hollow" - a story of two outlaws who ran together in a gang for most of their youth before having a massive falling out. seven years later, they end up in the same dead end town, and have to confront all the old scars between them (both literal and metaphorical), including the fact that, newsflash!, they've both been pining like idiots since they were, like, seventeen and just never said anything but now it's all so messed up between them that...can they make it work? time will tell!

it started as a podcast idea back in 2018 (fiction podcasts are my main thing) and I had such an impossible time selling it that I put it on the back burner and then a few years ago, I was like "could this be a book?" and have been attempting it ever since, including this year's nano! I think I'm getting close though

I'm so glad you like it!!!