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Hallucinator

Interstate Scene 14: “He thought it was a Civil War ghost,” she said. “But I didn’t start believing in ghosts until a few weeks ago.”

Interstate Scenes

Hallucinator

Interstate Scene 14: “He thought it was a Civil War ghost,” she said. “But I didn’t start believing in ghosts until a few weeks ago.”

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Antistatic

Interstate Scene 13: A jumbotron flashed above an overpass, and I held my breath.

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Plaza

Interstate Scene 12: Munching a cold french fry, I counted the logos flying around my head.

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Drone

Interstate Scene 11: Strange how the noise in my head can only be soothed by more noise.

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Red Shift

Interstate Scene 10: They say evolution occurs most rapidly in body parts that attract lovers and frighten rivals.

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Passage

Interstate Scene 9: Maps of the Arctic give me vertigo. All that blank bright land feels like leaping off a rooftop.

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Radioactivity

Interstate Scene 8: I scroll down the dial in search of the midnight call-in shows, those carrier waves of national rumor and patchwork theory.

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Fires

Interstate Scene 7: Headlights and taillights shimmered, their drivers hopped up on coffee and talk radio.

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The Comfort Lounge

Interstate Scene 6: It was a run-down joint where time stood still and probably slid backward.

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Dehydrated

Interstate Scene 5: The desert’s silence was hell on my tinnitus.

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A Matter of Degrees

Interstate Scene 4: Lose enough faith, and you might forget how to live.

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Dangling Shoes

Interstate Scene 3: Some Americans like to tie a pair of shoes together and toss them at a power line or a tree branch until they catch and hang.

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The Corners of the Ceiling

Interstate Scene 2: When she was a little girl, she would watch the darkness in her bedroom.

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Folk Religion

Interstate Scene 1: Maybe you’ve heard the stories, the baroque theories on late-night radio or the soliloquies of sunburnt men who mutter at the traffic.

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