The man walked onto the scene like a dislocated member of the living dead. The hitch in his leg and tremor in his shoulder presented two possibilities in my mind: he was either the dazed survivor of a motorcycle nightmare or the willing victim of an all day binge. (Based on previous […]
Archive for May, 2008
I’ve been planning a holiday in Uganda since time immemorial, and I finally left Sudan on second Friday of this month, but I wasn’t alone (even though being alone was part of my original escape plan). Mori complained of a toothache throughout the viscous crowd of sensations and circumstances that passed for a Thursday, interrupting […]
Last month, in the middle of all these stories of death, I put my radio on random and set to work on some bookkeeping. (The children and pastors call my iPod a radio and I’ve started referring to it in the same way, perhaps out of some flawed desire to make the device sound to […]
Recent Comments