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This really captures the feeling of adolescence in a family after divorce. Also I’m so curious as to what the sound could have been!

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Jul 7, 2023·edited Jul 7, 2023Author

the only two options worth considering are a) spooks or b) squirrels, wrestling with instruments far too large for their tiny bodies, trying to form seals around the mouthpieces but they just can't because they haven't got lips.

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Jul 6, 2023Liked by R. G. Miga, W. McCrae

This took me back to my teenage years with my unhappy parents who stayed together, and how I escaped to my wild pot-smoking, spider-eating boyfriend. Thank you!

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my boyfriend ate a skittle he found on the floor of a bus. is that better or worse than a spider? we should maybe not compare notes.

thanks for reading!

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obviously, this is the best way to get the spider's powers. (i'm not sure what powers come from a bus skittle.)

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he got the power to make me still semi-regularly bring up the bus skittle, 15 years later.

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a small price to pay for a kind of immortality. plus—free skittle.

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