We've been up all night.
Drinking. Smoking.
She's naked and singing and dancing around the room, spinning and hollering and falling down; I'm sitting in the corner, watching her with predatory eyes.
Drunk. Stoned.
We intended to do a shoot hours earlier; the kind where I do fucked up things to her fucked up body and record the fucked up results on film. The kind that ends in blood and bruises and tears and a smile and a thank you.
Instead, we drank and we smoked.
Take my picture.
She insists.
I comply.
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My name is Chad Michael Ward. I'm not a real photographer, but I play one on t.v.
"Jessica, 3AM" originally appeared on Chase Lisbon's short-lived LATE NIGHT FEELINGS blog in 2010.