And so it hit me, like one of those dreams where you’re falling, and then you wake with a jerk to realize that not only are you safe, but immaculately so, in a bed, which would have broken the fall anyway. You feel a bit foolish, not having known that the cushiony mattress was there [...]

Amazingly hard to believe the sight of, once it’s there in front of your face and not just some down-the-road notion, the actual image of giving the world hell.
In the mirror before me: striped boxers, yellowed white t-shirt, 50’s greaser hair (and not on purpose), the patchy growth of a 17-year-old sprinkled around the growing [...]

Generally a certain amount of planning, foresightedness, intuition, something, is recommended prior to venturing to a big city, if for no other reason then for when you roll in and the vast glass-and-granite endlessness of downtown stretches every which way of the compass, including, now, in Chicago, up, pining for the sky, and down, [...]