happening | tetra's perverted virtue

BILLY
It’s a good thing I’m dizzy over
you, doll. Otherwise, I’d hire a
trigger man to bump that mouth o’
yours.

EMMA
Oh, Billy. You are absolutely
adorable when you threaten my life.

BILLY
Sweetheart, you’re what we call a
pushinme.

EMMA
Pushinme?

BILLY
Pushin me to steal, pushin me to
drink, pushin me in jail, pushin me
to break my back.

Emma aggressively places the hot water bottle behind Billy’s back.

EMMA
How does that feel?

Billy pinches her tummy.

BILLY
Like a royal flush.

tetra balestri's dialogue's a shitzu in a perfumery, which is to say it's as odoriferous as it is absorbing. her own line, perverted. maybe someday i'll show you more. but if you're in a hurry and san francisco, get over to joel's tomorrow next sunday afternoon (you're honestly invited) and hear that slang slung live, eh? by mohammad ali, no less, and joel himself.

notable: billy's a six-foot mouse.