You will want to start with A Rejection because it is most apt. You will want to repeat it. The Bachelor’s Unhappiness as backbone, to understand the persistence of flirtation despite. When an enviable uproar eggs on until morning, you will want to read Up in the Gallery. When the hair in the crowd is gray and nostalgia rises like a smoky perfume, you will want to read The New Lawyer. You will slough off Decisions while the night is heady and defiant, and you will only know the meaning the next morning. You will want to add On Parables, but it is almost never appropriate. At the end of the night, you will understand to say Frocks gingerly, only grazing the ears.
There are no stories short enough to last the night. You will lace the thrum of the bass with your deep reading voice and go unnoticed. You will let yourself sublimate into the words. You will snap the fuck out because this is not actually the place for words so precise like a virus.