Hearse and Home: How Stephen King Saved My Girlhood
Down the steps of the second-story apartment above the hearse garage and across the alley was the library.
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Gloria Harrison
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Gloria Harrison is a storyteller raising teenage twin boys and building administrative infrastructures for small businesses. She's originally from the desert southwest and hopes to return to sunnier climes someday. She spends a lot of time with her beloved cat, Lump. You can read and hear more of her work on The Nervous Breakdown, This American Life, The Weeklings, Fictionaut, Other People with Brad Listi podcast, The Manifest Station, and Sweatpants and Coffee. She's also had the honor of telling her stories live at Back Fence PDX, The Moth Story Slam, and YARN. In January, 2017, a short film adaptation of her story that appeared on This American Life, "Let's See How Fast this Baby Will Go," was released by Australian director Julietta Boscolo. It is currently playing at film festivals around the world. If you’d like to read one woman’s existential mediations on life, love, pain, and children, you can follow Gloria’s blog, Excerpts from Ally Sheedy’s Purse. Gloria also has a Twitter page.
Where the Highway Splits
I’ve spent twenty years searching for the girl in the black shorts with a cold can of soda pop in her hand as though going through the steps of locating a lost wallet.