quiet.
IV
How? Isn’t that sort of rude? I don't understand why so many people insist on discussing such things. Are there waves in the aquifer? As if it's anyone's business. Why do you ask? It seems there must not be. Can’t be any kind of motion at all down there—memories are like that. Probably blind color-blanched fishes corroborate with stalactites and the drips. Silent. Still. Refusing to thrash, to be heard. Probably something calcifies and the surfers get bored waiting for conditions to change. Well, if you must know: Introvertigo; Extrovertigo. I come and I go. How do you do it? On Wednesday mornings with the light pouring in through slatted blinds? Isn’t that sort of trite? I do it. I do it fine with tree frogs starting to sing when the shower-timers go off in their cages at 4:00 a.m. in some old boyfriend’s memorable trailer. Probably waves that do get started panic underground, sealing, and escape any way they can. Introvert, I go. Extrovert, I go.
V
Regardless: No, I’m not doing anything this weekend. What do you want to do?
ABOUT THE ON IMPULSE EBOOK SERIES
On Impulse Series Titles:
The War is Language: 101 Short Works
2000 Deciduous Trees: Memories of a Zine
Love & Darts
How to Cherish the Grief-Stricken
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About the On Impulse eBook Series:
We each have an impulse to share our experience. These four collections of short works explore storytelling from catharsis to craft. Over the course of this series Nath Jones’s writing style develops from the raw, associative, tyrannic rambles of cathartic non-fiction, flash fiction, and rant in The War is Language and our digital domains, to the delightful rough-hewn vignettes of 2000 Deciduous Trees, into the compact characterizations of the fictionalized tellings in Love & Darts, and finally toward How to Cherish the Grief-Stricken’s fully-crafted short stories that use literary devices and narrative elements to reveal a world well-rendered.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Nath Jones received an MFA in creative writing from Northwestern University where she was a nominee for the Best New American Voices 2010. Her publishing credits include PANK Magazine, There Are No Rules, The Battered Suitcase, and Sailing World. Her current e-book series, On Impulse, explores the spectrum of narrative from catharsis to craft. She lives and writes in Chicago.
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