My Cardboard Balcony

I Quit by Belinda Roddie You built your own board game out of paper and random plastic tokens that you scrounged from the bottom of every desk drawer. You made up the rules and changed them whenever you were losing, crying, "No fair!" when anyone upped the ante. Somehow, after each death rattle of the dice, the energy was sucked out of the room. So your friends abandoned you to drink beer and play video games with your much cooler father, and you still don't understand why.

At the Jelly Fang concert, Chris and Neil each took two tabs: One pink, and one green. The pink pill would relax the muscles in the arms and legs, while the green pill would stimulate the heart and head. Without minutes of their self-prescribed doses, the two fans of the prog rock band found themselves collapsed onto the grass of the amphitheater, laughing loudly and screeching like animals from time to time as their fellow concertgoers stared at them in both confusion and horror.