Josh Cook is a fiction writer, editor, and teacher. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Iowa Review, the Washington Post, the Millions, the Rumpus, Sugar House Review, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, among others. He received his MFA from Pacific University and teaches at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
At best, I see her not as my oldest friend, but as the protagonist in a movie, lost and beautiful and unstable, a character I sympathize with even as she self destructs.