Annie Agnone is an MFA candidate in creative writing at The University of Alabama. She is a recent recipient of a National Geographic Young Explorers Grant to work on a nonfiction book about night's place in modern American culture. She likes cockroaches, swimming, and letting stray dogs into her car. She lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, with her partner, two not-stray dogs, and, sometimes, cockroaches.
“This is eulogy material,” my father says as he explains this logic. He preps me, teaches me what to say, how to stand. “Remember how he used to draw symbols on his socks,” he begins...