KYLE

i thought that was his name

i first met max on a winter night in either 2022 or 2021. forrest had created this website for people to talk on and everyone was inside all the time so people became really close. he was wearing this big russian trapper hat and i kept calling him kyle in the style of cartman's voice. it must have been a different night no more than a week later it was his birthday - at some point i was being ushered out of the apartment because of a fire started in someones air conditioning unit from the celebratory fireworks and i forgot my sweater there. when i came to pick it up i had to wait. the snow was frozen so i stomped boot marks into a giant penis pattern on Allen street. kyle showed up and told me his girlfriend just found out she was pregnant and they weren't going to keep the baby. i had borscht that night