Shane Jones

My approach to reality was drastically off, for example, I had noticed while working at my office that I sat facing my computer monitor in an odd way, that is, I sat off to the side of the monitor, enough so that Iris asked why I was, “sitting crooked.”

The sky is laced with turquoise worms, and where the sun normally is there’s two red lips, a parting mouth with clouds for teeth. Remy’s bed contains 24 stacked pillows that form a wall.

6. Unusual Sense of Humor

Immediately started laughing, so I started laughing too, and the laughing got louder and louder as I read ‘Blood Meridian’ to my baby.

Coworker who I can’t see in adjacent cubicle shouted that ‘Angels & Demons’ is his favorite Dan Brown book and I held up my copy over the cubicle wall with arm fully extended and said loudly, “I have it right here.”

5) You’re not Bukowski, or Hemingway, or David Foster Wallace.