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“(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” – Blue Oyster Cult

“Bad Habit” – The Kooks

“I Wanna Be Sedated” – Ramones

“Girls” – The 1975

“Get It On” – T Rex

“Liability” – Lorde

“Heart of Glass” – Blondie

“Teen Idle” – Marina and the Diamonds

“What Is and What Should Never Be” – Led Zeppelin

“Adore” – Amy Shark

“Because the Night” – Patti Smith

“Tear in My Heart” – Twenty One Pilots

“Don’t forget the corn chips!” yelled Georgia, hanging out of her car

“Got it”

“And hot salsa, Edie None of that mild crap, you coward”

I flipped her off and kept walking, watching the ground

Rain had turned every pothole in the Drop Stop’s parking lot into a ht, so yay for rain Bottle caps and cigarette stubs were floating like tiny boats on murky waters The Northern California windoff the Open sign Everything else was dark Things were quiet in Auburn around ia and I were forced to drive across town to ht Harry Potter fil our contribution as citizens of the Endurance Capital of the world

“Oh, Oreos!”

As if I’d forget the Oreos, I said tothe shitty little store

What you’re most likely to drop at the Drop Stop are your standards And I had It had been y old blue T-shirt versus Georgia’s satin unicorn-print slip In the ja competition, I was the clear winner I don’t think it occurred to either of us to actually bother getting dressed Too much effort for summer break

Inside, the fluorescent lights were dazzling, the air-conditioning cold enough to give oose bumps But there it was An aisle’s worth of every bad food choice you could possibly make and as my ass could testify, I’d made them all Happily and repeatedly