Hotrods When was the first time that you knew what it meant to be alive, to have a mortality? I remember. The afternoon of that day was dreamy, the sort of afternoon where the waning sun whispered nap on a seven-year-old’s body. I was buckled into the passenger seat beside my mother as she droveContinue reading “Hotrods”
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Iguanas
Iguanas One night in the mid-90s, I sat transfixed by a performance of Tennessee Williams’ The Night of the Iguana. As the play came to its end, bright stage lights fading to darkness, houselights coming up, I became aware that no one was leaving the seats, each of us saturated in the story, still. As quiet as anContinue reading “Iguanas”