Downtown / Dwemthy
Channel: Tobias Langhoff
Date: 2016-03-24

Chapter Six: Downtown

Track Six on the Soundtrack:
0:00 Downtown
1:10 Dwemthy

One day, back around the time I met Bigelow (that dog who walked off with the balloons), I came back to my apartment hauling some board games I’d bought at a garage sale. And Quil was on my porch. Which stunned me since she’d been in San Antonio for like three years. She was sleeping in a sleeping bag on my porch.

She had run out of money to go to art school, so she stayed at my place for five months or so.

I found this used bunkbed for our place. At night we’d sit in our beds and read each other stories from our notebooks. I was writing a book about a kid who’s a detective and he’s trying to figure out who killed this kid on his tennis team and all these animals end up helping him figure it out. She was writing a book about this kid who puts an ad in the classifieds to get other kids to join his made-up cult and they end up building a rocket ship. But during most of her book these kids are lost in the woods and pretty directionless, which I got a kick out of hearing each night.

Yeah, each night it was poetry or stories or ideas for tricking our neighbors. Our neighbor Justin was a big fan of Warhammer and he had all these real swords and tunics. We decided to make suits of armor out of tin foil and go attack his apartment. We started ransacking his apartment and he loved it. So he made his own suit of armor out of tin foil and we all went to a professional glamour studio and had a quality group shot taken.

I’m not saying my life is any better than yours. I just miss my sister. Life isn’t like that now. We’re dissolved or something.

I don’t know. I’m confused. Is this growing up? Watching all your feathers come off? And even though some of those feathers were the most lovely things?

I’m having a hard time telling who stopped it all up. Who stopped loving who? Did I stop caring? Maybe I only saw her in two-dimensions and I didn’t care to look at the other angles. I only saw planes. Then she shimmied up the z-axis when I wasn’t looking and I never did the homework to trace the coordinates. A limb on a geometrical tree and I am insisting on circles.

Blix was right. I’m in so shape to write this book. Goodbye until I can shake this.

Artwork from why’s (poignant) Guide to Ruby by why the lucky stiff. Music from The Soundtrack to why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby, performed slapdash by The Thirsty Cups.

Both works were originally released under CC-BY-SA http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/