Kalila
Sarah Joy Freese

The band director cues the band to play her favorite song, "Sleigh Ride," while she listens over her LG Chocolate before her first chemo treatment.

*

When I get stuck, I read what others have written. Usually, I want to slit my wrists afterwards, but not in a suicidal kind of way.
In this issue, there are interviews with Salman Rushdie (24), Nam Le (42), Kathryn Harrison (58), and Andrew Sean Greer (76).
I am reading Slice.

*

My mom had to tell me there was no such thing as Santa Claus when I was three because I was afraid of a strange man entering the house. I didn't care if he was leaving gifts.
Stevan Allred says, "When magic comes into your life, you don't necessarily have to believe in it for the metaphor to work."

*

The endings always work.
It's the beginnings that suck.
I once read a story that began with this quote: "The dog, at a mile's distance, walks circles in the middle of the road."
Or maybe it was the ending.
I don't remember.

1996 © 2009