July 2012
2 posts
Cosmonaut And Me
Outside of a small contingent of fine people, most every person I know lives on the East Coast, and they are asleep. Tonight I am on the West Coast, and I do not spend much time on the West Coast, and there is a three-hour time difference between here and home. It is 10:25 p.m. here right now. I don’t know what time it is back home, as I’m never awake then.
With everyone I know...
Ascension
We sipped our fresh-poured Bud Light pints as our eyes met across the table. I could tell our minds were in the same place, one of the only places they’d been for five months. And that place was not this bar.
“We have to do this tonight,” I told him. I lit a cigarette and did that thing where you flick the lighter with one hand while your other hand covers the tip of the stick,...