Pennywise & The Welder
I'd been talking to Neil Thorson online for six weeks before I agreed to meet him, which for me is basically a record.
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41 42 Booth Bitch
Katherine Redding, twenty-eight and six months out of the worst breakup of her life, had been standing behind the state-park recruitment…
43 the last five shifts
Shift one.
44 Truck Stop Minuet
The dock at the Sacramento convention center is not built for a seventy-three footer, but I've backed into worse.
45 The Diver's Smile
The trouble started on the beach, day one of the festival.
46 Coaching the Weekend
Grady stands at the edge of the practice field and watches a battered old robot spin in circles, dragging its claw behind it like a broken…
47 Bare Canvas, Broken Rodeo
*This one started with the idea of obligation turning into something unspoken.
48 Carbon Paper and a Pigeon
The pigeon had been sitting on that dead rat for two days, or at least I'd been watching it for two days, and neither of us showed any…
49 The Curator's Game
Derrick is fighting with the canopy again.
50 Sticky Fingers, Silent Wants
The sign-up sheet said ten days.
51 The Festival Bet
*This one's all about the playful energy of festivals and how a simple invitation can turn into something really hot between partners who…
52 The Last Planetarium Showing
So there I was, sixty-three years old, twelve years a security guard and four years happily single, and I get an email from Alec on a…
53 Rope and Rodeo
I want to start by saying I'm thirty-five years old and I own four hundred acres of good cattle land outside Billings, and until last…
54 Side Stage
Nana Voss was twenty-eight years old and had exactly one theory about herself, which was that she could do anything if she treated it like…
55 The Glass Key
The bus dropped me at the bottom of the hill and I walked the last stretch with my knife roll over one shoulder and a crate of squash in…
56 Pouring Technique
The tent smelled like roasted beans and salt air, and I'd been standing in front of that pour since the buzzer went off.
57 The View From the Booth
Tracey Farrell was thirty-four years old and she had been married long enough to know her husband's tells.
58 The Last Blend
I've been coming to the Lunar Convention Center for eleven years now, and it still smells the same every time, like recycled air with a…
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