Eventually, I started back to camp. I took a more direct route back down, sliding down the face of the dunes, imagining myself a super-hero or an international spy pulling off some unbelievable feat of agility. Sliding just past an oncoming train on a rainy night with bullets whizzing past me. It would be a [...]
I’m not that big of a nature guy. But at that point in my life, I didn’t know that. Eventually, I would make it a mission to get to larger and larger urban centers. At twenty, though, I had only ever known the suburbs and the small rural town that my family came from, both [...]
We had just turned west and so the view for me was towards the breaking sun and the rolling prairie. The sky was pink in the distance and turning to ink as it rose into the retreating night. The grasslands were topped with gold on black shadows. All the world was suspended between two layers [...]
The joint was so ridiculous we couldn’t even finish it in one sitting. We had to save half for later. We decided to eat our shame. When we got to our turnoff to head south we pulled into a gas station for snacks.
Leslie had taken to corralling Matt. She was trying to force herself to [...]
We had all laid awake that night, listening to Matt screw Leslie. Kenny and I were sharing a tent, and Brad had one to himself. Kenny was the most repulsed by this situation. Except for Matt, perhaps, who had gone into Leslie’s tent with the look of a man resigned to doing his duty. For [...]