“No ritual scarring, but maybe a tornado”

Why is Creative Writing always so sad and depressing? –David Lynn, I took the 12:30am flight from Los Angeles last Saturday and arrived in Ohio at 11am for my sixth summer as a participant in The Kenyon Review Writers Workshops after 2 layovers and 3 hours of sleep. At the Texas airport I almost became a cliche but saved myself by putting the copy of On The Road back on the airport-bookstore shelf. “‘Come home’, the Earth utters to the body.”–David Baker Tyler Meier, KR Man