GABRIEL KRAUZE
ILLUSTRATIONS BY BEN JONES
And jump out the whip and I’m hitting the pavement and it’s this moment-when you jump out of the car and it’s too late to go back-when you know that you’re definitely gonna do it now, even though the way the adrenaline bursts through your body makes you wish for a second that you weren’t here. And now we’re creeping up the street, she’s too far ahead of us, we got the timing wrong but we can’t run to catch up because that will alert her and she’ll turn around, so we’re creeping fast. The bally is hugging my face tight and I’ve also pulled my hood over it and I feel the adrenaline explode in the pit of my chest like a dying star and it’s like my entire body has turned into the pumping of my heart.