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
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.