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happily forever

February 4, 2010July 30, 2011 / carrot quinn / 5 Comments

-----------------------a   s t o r y-------------------------------- ---------- H A P P I L Y     F O R E V E R  --------------------------- The lake is ringed in gravel, and sits on the outskirts of town. It smells of soaked leaves and phosphorus, and above it, the sky is empty and blue. I park … Continue reading happily forever

Fairbanks

June 5, 2009April 23, 2015 / carrot quinn / 13 Comments

I live in a van, in a weedy lot, for now, a sort of junkyard where willows grow from the engines of old cars. I’ve pulled one of the seats from my van and set it up on a wooden flatbed trailer that catches the light. It’s my recliner, the place where I sit in … Continue reading Fairbanks

F U C K – K E R O U A C

February 2, 2009 / carrot quinn / 20 Comments

.At some point in my coming-of-age years (not that long ago, really) I read Kerouac (white man has adventures, shit-talks women). I read Into The Wild (White man writes about other white man’s stupid adventures). I read Evasion (young white man rides freight trains, eats dumpstered bagels, encourages reader to do same). I read Jack … Continue reading F U C K – K E R O U A C

teeter-totters, tatertots, Indian in the Cupboard and 3-D W4W

January 19, 2009 / carrot quinn / 9 Comments

.A friend was reading last night at Powell’s, so Starling McMorning and I met up there, early, to surf the timber shelves and find some wooden book of words that said what we needed it to say, but did not know, yet. I climbed up to the top of a mountain and found a Susan … Continue reading teeter-totters, tatertots, Indian in the Cupboard and 3-D W4W

Space is closer than you think

January 8, 2009 / carrot quinn / 7 Comments

That’s what one of the headlines on my homepage said when I opened my computer and turned it on. I didn’t read the article, I don’t want to know what it says. I just like that statement. I believe it to be true. It’s IS closer than you think. All of it.I’ve been thinking about … Continue reading Space is closer than you think

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