Things you learn from various distances.
What I learned from the life and words of Lanford Wilson.
Rapid Response Team.
Thoughts on the relative speed of self-expression.
Dots per square inch.
For the sake of argument, let’s say these are resolutions.
Historical Friction.
In which I struggle with the chasm between veracity and drama.
WRITE CLUB: GIVE
Write Club is a monthly, literary bloodsport in which contenders face off against each other with 7-minute essays on competing topics. This was the combatant essay for GIVE.
Things I’ve Learned.
Ascent, descent, and learning to breathe the air at every altitude.
A Note to the Audience (Allegedly Invisible).
On the full array of disbeliefs being suspended.
Inventory, or Where Else I’ve Been.
The consequences of having the life you believe you want.
Impact.
“You expect to react with horror, of course, because a plane crash is horrific, a mess of tangled steel and broken limbs, the crater it leaves, the stench of jet fuel ablaze.”