Last night I dreamt that I died. I was on coke and heroin in the dream. It was in high school, and I was having withdrawals and didn’t want to go to school. Mabel grabbed me and asked if I was on drugs, like some stereotypical sitcom moment. I started crying and said “Yes, oh …

My memories frequently diverge from others’. It’s not that they remember something that I’ve forgotten… it’s that I remember something vividly that was markedly different from what they remember, which they remember just as vividly. I sometimes remember completely different situations and events than they do. The first time this ever happened, the way I …

I dreamed that Delbert had found a new friend… who was actually an alien. His name was something like Super Tube Face and he purported to know the true history of the human race and even of reality. He looked a lot like Karl C. He had a world-weary, droll attitude suggestive of British humour, …

I had the wildest-ass dream while I was taking a nap today. In it, I was lying in my bed in my actual room in the actual position I was in. It was as though I was half awake. My dead Granny Mabel started visiting me. It seemed as though she came to me multiple …

Grandma Bernadette has a dish that has been her signature dish ever since I have been alive. She calls it “Shrimp Spaghetti.” Most people don’t know what it is and look at me funny when I mention it. It’s just store-bought spaghetti in a sauce which contains crushed canned shrimp, tomato paste and garlic. I’m …

I’m not much of an environmentalist, mostly just paying lip service to the idea, but one of the things I truly regret is the decline of the firefly. When I was a kid living in extremely rural [REDACTED], Kentucky, I would see so many of them at night that the fields I played in looked …