in hues of liquid caramel and oxidized soda

“Come over when you can, I’ve made a breakthrough with the mycelial network," Paul says. This is code for I want to tell you all about my nerdy science project, which you’re smart enough to understand even if you have no idea how I’ll get from point A to point XKJ5.9.78, which, quite frankly, neither do I.

Hugh Culber never imagined that at twenty-six, he would be nursing crushes on cute guys that hang out at the local cafés and live off sugar and pure spite, but life is often unexpected like that.