Have you readThe Hunger Gamesyet? It’s SICK. Like everyone dies. It’s crazy. You’d love it.
—Ethan
From: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Re: Your email address is weird.
Why do I want to read a book where everyone dies? Also, if we’re rebuilding society, I’d prefer if I was the one leading it, but I’ll keep the infinity symbol as a gesture of goodwill.
—Charley8Beekman
Eleven Years Ago
From: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Re: You’re an absolute nightmare
Powell—
Why do you have band practice on Sundays? I have no one to distract me from this college essay and have to resort to email.
I’m supposed to write about my biggest dreams, and all I can think about is how this house in Milwaukee is officiallywhere I’ve lived the longest, but my mom still says it’s temporary. She’s been sleeping on a pullout for two years waiting for my dad to take us away and become the kind of guy who can stay in one place for longer than two minutes without getting bored. To him, our family is this interesting idea, but inconvenient in practice.
I don’t get why my mom can’t give up on this ridiculous dream of a happy family he doesn’t even want. Laurel says the whole concept of monogamy is flawed, but then what about the Obamas? Explain them then!
It has to be possible for the right people to find each other and make it work. So maybe that’s my big dream. To be in a power couple where we have a house that’s ours and the jobs and the couch that’s perfectly white and never gets dirty even though we have three muddy dogs and it all feels permanent, you know? Do you think that’ll get me into college?
lol. lol. no. I’ll channel you and write something about the environment.
—Charley
From: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Re: Re: You’re an absolute nightmare
Chuck—
I’m ashamed I ever thought your dad was cool. To my credit I was thirteen and had never met an adult man with a dangly earring.
I wish we could swap lives. Between the shop and this town, everything feelstoopermanent.
I got into this music camp in Northern Michigan. It’s supposed to be great, but my parents need me at the shop this summer so my mom can finally get the knee surgery she’s been putting off. Sometimes I feel guilty for being the third-generation heir to a donut shop who physically can’t eat donuts.
Obviously, I want my mom to have time off to recover, but I also wanted this seemingly life-changing experience to maybe change my life. Sometimes it feels like my life is going on someplace else without me. This town’s this fishbowl I’ll never escape even though I can see through the glass.
I think I want to get a tattoo. Would you ever get a tattoo?
Also, is this anything?
www.soundcloud.com/lemonface/rooftop-comedown
—Ethan
