Francis Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle

Kurt Cobain died when I was a senior in high school. I was burning incense (I was in high school, as I said), and the incense caught my calendar on fire, burning it up to the date that he died. It was spooky. And I was sad. I had heard about a lot of artists […]

Relics

I had a lot of vicodin left over. Unfortunately, it didn’t do much for me. A shot of whiskey does me more good. It’s just been sitting in the cabinet behind my shower, in a little sky-blue plastic basket that was left behind by the previous tenant. I also had a lot of neurontin, the […]

Aglow

Glow worms are as real as squirrels. And all this time I thought they were like unicorns or mermaids. I was by the river, crunching around in the dark with a lantern in one hand. I turned it off to see the stars, and instead, the glow worms called. I saw fewer stars there, out […]

The Find

I found a dinosaur bone. It was half uncovered in the schoolyard. I was quite the scientist then. I vacillated between astronaut, archeologist, and chemist as dream jobs. I was surprised that a dinosaur bone was lying there in the outfield of the softball area of a Kansas elementary school. I had heard that most […]