THE BIG LIE NEW ORLEANS Sitting at a bar on Bourbon Street. Shrimp and Grits for dinner. I’m on my tenth beer. The crowds come in and walk through the bar in clusters. Bartenders yell out, “Drinks drinks drinks. How many? What you want? Seven? Ten? Twelve?” The bartenders are fast. I know one of … Continue reading The Fringe 2016: Chapter 7
A CASINO Charlestown, West Virginia. After the week we just had, this is the last place we expected to end up. But when the local KOA costs $65 and is jammed packed for the “every weekend is a holiday weekend in October” Halloween festival, and hotels in the area are $70 or higher, and you’re … Continue reading The Fringe 2016: Chapter 6
OUT OF THE FURNACE AND INTO THE MITTEN We’d been wandering through the elaborate halls of the capitol building in Lansing, Michigan for about twenty minutes. Past the security guards, past the front desk, past the tour-info booth, up one ornate stairwell and then another, we’d poked our heads into a couple of open doors … Continue reading The Fringe 2016: Chapter 4
