My oldest brother is going to get married. So madness is all but assured ( Read more... )

I once lived in a 15' travel trailer. This trailer belonged to a Crazy Man ( Read more... )

So I am in Oslo ( Read more... )

My books are 'taking over the apartment,' she says, and something must be done ( Read more... )

I have never before saved a hot air balloon in distress. But now, I feel, is my time to shine ( Read more... )

I will never go into space, because I do not want to drink my own recycled urine. I will never explore the Mariana Trench, because I don't like the thought of seafood that can eat me. In the end, the only likely way that I will meet bizarre and truly otherworldly creatures is on the receiving end of intergalactic sodomy. So I take a more ( Read more... )

I spend my days strapping Syrian and Lebanese preteens into flight simulators, and fall asleep at night while packs of stray dogs rumble outside my bedroom window. Such is my life in Turkey ( Read more... )

I could drown at any moment ( Read more... )

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My childhood home is the bastard love child of M.C. Escher and MTV CribsSpiral staircases abut antique phone booths. A hydraulic dentist chair, complete with x-ray machine, stands guard over the cast iron chimenea. If there were ever any doors closing off any one part of the house from the other, outside of our bedrooms, I'm too young to ( Read more... )

I first controlled my dreams when I was six years old. I summoned a tornado in my back yard ( Read more... )