Telling: Altars & Artifacts

mom

gus says (death by run-on)

Gus paused in his reading of Davy Crockett's biography last night. "When I grow up I'm going to make horror movies," he said. "And you know one way people will die? There'll be this really long sentence with no period and no period and no period and they'll keep reading and reading and—" he clutches his throat and gasps.

Death by run-on sentence.

A Mother's Journal

field notes from
1997 - 1999