Sunday, September 11, 2011

next on the tuesday interview? mark childress

"You feel anything?"

"Nope."

"Maybe you're supposed to hold it in longer."

It was summer in Indiana, the week before I turned sixteen. All afternoon my friends and I had been on our bikes, following the mosquito truck through the streets, breathing the sweet-smelling clouds of DDT because we'd heard it would get you high. From One Mississippi by Mark Childress

Photo by Colin O'Brien via welcome back oldtimer

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