All of us were here for a little while and then we were somewhere else: Excerpt from WE HAD IT COMING

All of us were here for a little while and then we were somewhere else: Excerpt from WE HAD IT COMING

Posted by Oakland Review of Books on October 24, 2025

"I looked at the faces around me and I knew mine was like theirs. Faces with the blood drained away, tight faces, worried, lost. Faces like flowers torn from their roots and stuffed into a pretty vase, the colors draining fast. I had to get away from that town."

Yeah that definitely sounds like the type of shit that I would have liked back then. Now too but especially back then.

Read the full excerpt here.