“Are you a detective?” A guy sitting a few seats down at the bar asks this question to my friend, who has just finished scribbling a few lines in a small flip notebook. “No,” my friend answers. He slides the notebook back into his breast pocket. “You should’ve said yes,” I tell him. “You have … Continue reading Talking to Strangers
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Dear Diary / Dear Stranger / Dear Void
Remember those “Dear America” books in middle school? They were fictional diaries from the point of view of young characters living through historical events. Those books cycled through the school library like nobody’s business, and I was certainly one of the girls who pawed through them many times, further fraying the ribbon bookmark that came … Continue reading Dear Diary / Dear Stranger / Dear Void