Executive Writer, @underwatersunshinefest. Creative Writing Professor, University of Evansville. Fiction, Poetry, & Music Writing. Heavy metal mouth. She/Her.
Dec 14, 2018 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
THE GAME’S AFOOT: Stump Katie! All right, I’m going to go old school with mine. You almost certainly know OF Harry Chapin— “Cat’s in the Cradle” and if you’re particularly savvy, “Taxi.” So I bet you know him. But I bet you don’t know how best songs—
For example, “Better Place to Be” is one of the saddest short stories I know. It’s nearly eight minutes long but completely captivating: a man tells a waitress the story of a date he thought was going well, but when he went out to grab breakfast, she left.