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Me, You, Ego
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An author's literary sketchbook with an emphasis on the creative process.
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More notes on chopping wood.
Today is a few months after the night I found out about what you did with him on the flowered sheets of your bed. I grab a dull ax from the garage, where it was leaning in the corner behind taped-up cardboard boxes filled with old National Geographic...
Becca\'s pubic hair and right tit.
The first time we did it, Mattie had just seen Sam’s older sister’s right tit while she changed into her bathing suit in the upstairs yellow linoleum bathroom of Sam’s suburban home. We were twelve and it was a few months after Mat’s mother d...
The straight and narrow of it.
The day we moved into the apartment above the stable, the field was all mud and roots and smelled like wet cardboard. By the time the green stubble of spring started littering the landscape, I had already forgotten every promise I had made to her. I ...
The sun rises, but the sun also sets.
On long walks, I sorted through the broken family—once real and tangible, an imagined and beautiful thought to be carefully wrapped and protected during the day and tucked beneath the cool pillow at night—and now lifeless. I pick through the tend...
A terrible white light.
Another one—this time a car crash. It was raining, of course, and everything was wet and heavy. You were driving and there was nothing on the radio. We talked about what colors we would paint our walls. That simple shade of red, you said, just like...
