46 Comments
User's avatar
Gary Trujillo's avatar

It's almost impossible to write if you don't imagine your pain as the pain of all pains. Universal suffering makes for shit prose.

Sudana Krasniqi's avatar

Amen Gary. This must be why my self-centered ass is so good!

C.J. Heath's avatar

The verisimilitude broke when you said a man in a turtleneck had sex with a woman

Sudana Krasniqi's avatar

Would it absolutely kill you to just “like” the damn thing

C.J. Heath's avatar

It takes more effort to write than like!

Sudana Krasniqi's avatar

I missed you

Atom Eye Bee's avatar

"Saddest Girl to Ever Hold a Martini" tumbler set with shaker. Consider branching out into foodstuffs like blue cheese olives.

Sudana Krasniqi's avatar

When is our next zoom call? Someone needs to write these down

Atom Eye Bee's avatar

They're called notes for a reason.

Dia Lupo's avatar

So he can make me cum in the bathroom of a bar. That doesn’t make him Jesus. (!!!)

Sudana Krasniqi's avatar

low-key it kinda does …

Caroline Beuley's avatar

The saddest girl to ever hold a martini is iconic

Sudana Krasniqi's avatar

you would think it’s hard to be sad with a martini but somehow I have it down lol

QuYahni B Joseph's avatar

Dude totally missing the part about you cutting yourself. Where do they go inside themselves?

Vulnerable. Vivid. Beautiful.

Sudana Krasniqi's avatar

Thank you QuYahni. Tbh I had reservations about unleashing this one

QuYahni B Joseph's avatar

I’m glad you did. Hugging you 💋

Unsympathetic Nervous System's avatar

You make suicidal ideation so chic. This is not a criticism. You write about being messy in the loveliest way. From my own experience, Guys with PhDs in bars know everything except basic empathy. Also, a bunch of other very important shit.

Sudana Krasniqi's avatar

Thank you. Being messy is, well… layered, to say the least. It isn’t for everyone, plenty of days I wish it wasn’t for me either, but it can be lovely.

Unsympathetic Nervous System's avatar

I also want to say, the right partner will let you feel big feelings. It's okay to have big ones. A lot of writers do.

Stuart Pennebaker's avatar

What the hell is going on, I have also been absolutely DOWN this week??! Screaming in recognition! Loved this so much, safety in worst person in the world numbers <3

Sudana Krasniqi's avatar

Stu I need an exorcism at this point. I have like one good day followed by four absolutely horrid ones and I don’t know why?! I mean I kinda know why but , still! Divas f’ing down.

Stuart Pennebaker's avatar

I'm interested in the exorcism!

Sudana Krasniqi's avatar

2 for 1 @ Claire’s!

Logan Ashe Darrow's avatar

I didn't teach my daughter to cook. I tell young women - men are so easy to reel in with home cooked meals.

But don't do it, because you will end up exactly where you thought you wanted to be: in the kitchen with a knife in your hand while he's over there in his chair holding his phone and/or the TV remote.

Marigold's avatar

So good. Only wish is that you would do readings

Sudana Krasniqi's avatar

Maybe I’ll start with a little poem first? If Bukowski did them, so can I.

Thank you, I’m glad you liked this one.

C.S. Mee's avatar

This is great

Sudana Krasniqi's avatar

It took a lot out of me, thank you Carly

Clementine (عائزہ )'s avatar

Ugh I love the way you write

Sudana Krasniqi's avatar

Thank you Clementine. I have reservations about this one being a little too honest but oh well. Too late to take it back now

Tom Van Valkenburgh's avatar

Those are your best ones. Sometimes your meanest and nastiest too but not always.

Clementine (عائزہ )'s avatar

Honesty and authenticity are so refreshing! Sorely lacking in so much work

Sissitrix's avatar

Pleasure and pain are talents in which you excel. Words, too.

Sudana Krasniqi's avatar

Thank you, Sissi

A.P. Murphy's avatar

"The melodrama. You have a gift, a true talent, for imagining your pain is unique"

I was just indulging in an industrial quantity of that and I need to do some 'pologizin' tonight

Sudana Krasniqi's avatar

It takes a special skill …

A.P. Murphy's avatar

You’d think at age it would be off the menu, but old drama queens never stop rollin’ out the drama

Ryan Pitchford's avatar

great read. love the tori reference

Katrina Donham's avatar

I took my martini filthy tonight. Which bar are we meeting up at when I come to NYC? We will be sad or happy together.