Author name: Hayley Stockall

In my dreams I smash lamps, throw rocks through windows. I scream at my mother

Wake up in his bed, alone, while he boards airplanes to other cities where he sleeps on other people’s couches

That year we had lived apart, my boyfriend in his house by the railway line and myself in a small, concrete room

He claimed that sleeping under the house was his choice, despite the four empty beds above