story about music #4, Part II
A Story About the Trouble Books

Episode 5 picks up after the concert that night. Keith and Linda let us stay in their basement after a chance thunderstorm popped up and rained in the tent we’d pitched in their backyard. As my friend Ricco slept on the couch, I lay on my back on the floor and wondered if I wasn’t just a little in over my head.

I wanted to be like them, but maybe more than that, I wanted to be them––to settle in some forgotten corner of the U.S. and never worry about having to “make it.” But I also didn’t want to be unknown like them. At some point in the night, one of Keith and Linda’s cats wandered past and I wondered, were they happy here? And more importantly: was this what I really needed?

Keith and Linda's work can be found at http://barkandhiss.com