Archive - thaw

How is it possible to have another body on your skin and still feel bones alone?

Jul 2 •

Zachary Hourihane

August 2024

I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be

Ordinarily, you feel far away from that boy staring at his feet. Did you consider the pain of losing touch with him entirely?

Aug 20, 2024 •

Zachary Hourihane

June 2024

The Bug in My Shoe

“I am worthless. Completely undeserving of life. I want to become a bug and live in your shoe. I need to get stomped on and obliterated.”

Jun 10, 2024 •

Zachary Hourihane

April 2024

Bless the telephone

I cry for the snails I murdered, for the version of me that needed to kill, for the part of me that still wants to.

Apr 15, 2024 •

Zachary Hourihane

February 2024

Avril Lavigne’s Suburbaphobia

The mother fucking princess circles back

Feb 8, 2024 •

Zachary Hourihane

January 2024

I will not go to the crooked man’s house

already, I’ve cut my teeth on his belt buckle and self-flagellated in pursuit of warmth.

Jan 9, 2024 •

Zachary Hourihane

December 2023

How do I love this life right here?

Dec 27, 2023 •

Zachary Hourihane

Early on I accepted this year as an ice-age. The good version of me, quieter and more energetically sensitive, is frozen for now.

Dec 21, 2023 •

Zachary Hourihane

“I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means.

Dec 20, 2023 •

Zachary Hourihane

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