LATE NIGHT GAS STATIONS, EXPLAINED
You’re tired. More tired than you’ve been in days, with the exhaustion burrowed deep within you. And you’re dirty. There’s a line of grayed grime lingering beneath your fingernails; your face itches. You’ve been driving for too long. Where the bright day once glistened around you, nighttime has wrapped itself around everything in a dark, blotted black. Like smashed-up berries. Maybe you’re headed to see a friend—one you haven’t seen in a while. Or maybe you’re traveling for the sake of simply gathering distance, a way to clear your head of the noise the city has left inside it. Either way,
