How to Get a Badreads Review from Me, Part Two
The story’s incoherent, the characterization paper-thin, and a potentially compelling mystery reaches a breathtakingly unsatisfying conclusion.
The story’s incoherent, the characterization paper-thin, and a potentially compelling mystery reaches a breathtakingly unsatisfying conclusion.
They’re always an adventure, our Wednesday chats.
I wasn’t expecting a woman to lean out the passenger window, pointing at us passionately as she exclaimed, “I’m so proud of you!”
I look at my feet and then at my dog’s feet, all tucked into the backpack she is patiently waiting for me to let her out of.
As awful as Nintendo can be, the charm of Pokémon is undeniable.
She can come to the phone right now, because if she has died, she has also risen.
We wandered our neighborhood, spending nothing to play pickleball on the tennis courts north of us and to watch the sunset from the hill to the south.
What actions are actually rest for me these days, and what are just a means to while away the time?
We reach out towards it and it reaches back.
Even when victory Monday became commiseration Monday, I felt the beauty of living that disappointment together.