Scrabble

Traced (10): what you do to your steps when you’re trying to figure out how the hell you got where you are.

Twigs (10): fodder, easily broken kindling that cracks underfoot.

Visitor (20): the only person who can delay an argument

Approval (19): The thing that people vehemently deny wanting or needing, and being the purveyor of it gives one unlimited power.

Linger (9): What anger tends to do when it isn’t validated

Heart (18): Something you will be both damned and praised for using.

Dimes (9) (turned Visitor into Visitors for +11): the part of change that is stolen from someone without much thought or knowledge.

Honor (10): The opposite of nickel and diming.

Jewelry (40): Things guilty men buy with money they don’t actually have.

Shamed (24): How enablers feel.

Fallen (11): The only thing I’ve done with too much gusto.

Confide (17): What you do when you want everyone to know you’re fucked up.

Fibber (15): What you are when you want everyone to think you’re normal.

Quits (14): The enabler’s last remedy. It always come before the addict’s.

Coaxing (on a double word score 38): What the addict does when the enabler quits.

Nobody ever wins. We just keep playing until there’s nothing left in the bag.