And then she got really high on common pantry spices ( Read more... )

Oh, my. It stormed all night. I might've got thirty, forty minutes of sleep. It was exciting, though, energizing, and I sat up and I got some milk and I listened to the thunder and felt like Meg Murray at the beginning of A Wrinkle in Time.

I have a copy of this anthology, which I've been reading-- it's quite good overall, but it's an ( Read more... )

Who isn't sleeping?

That's right! I'm not sleeping! Alas, there is absolutely no good reason for this. I gave it a pretty good shot, I think-- I did try to, you know, crank my brain down to a moderate simmer--- but after almost three hours of lying in bed and wishing I were about to fall asleep while not coming anywhere close to that state, I ( Read more... )

a.)

I'm in the living room watching the Watergate hearings while my stepfather yells at my mother,
          Launches a glass across the room straight at her head, and I dash upstairs to take cover--
          Lean in close to my little record player on the floor-- so this is what the volume knob's for!
          I listen to dance music... ( Read more... )