I pull myself up tall from where I slump in the passenger seat. We’ve been in Illinois for a long time and all I’ve seen is a whole lot of nothing. Empty fields lay barren as far as the eye can see. The monotony is occasionally broken up by a tree here or there, but overall, it’s dead, flat land....
It’s every girl’s worst nightmare. Except most big creepy van nightmares don’t have the following animals involved: three ferrets, two rabbits, a cage of gerbils, and another cage of rats running those multi-colored plastic tubes. Beneath them is a larger cage with two half-squirrel, half-rabbit ...
Godforsaken because I’ve never seen a shadier, more depressing street. Most of the lights have been busted out, with the exception of one tangerine colored bulb that flickers about half a block up. In the spotlight below, a mangy cat licks its paw. “Where the hell are we?” “You don’t recognize it...
As I stood outside my door, the intensity of the silence weighed on me. I’d been down this road before. Silence at a time like this could drive a guy crazy. I put my fists in my pockets and turned back the way I came. It took me seven minutes to get to Blackberry Hill. I m...