Tag Archives: Pittsburgh

Heat Lightening, Ohio

18th
Jul. × ’10
By Sarah
Heat Lightening – Ohio from Sarah Menkedick on Vimeo. The other night my dad rustled me up from reading The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao to come look at the heat lightening. We plodded up the wooden staircase to the deck, and the sky was being suddenly, erratically illuminated with violet flashes that etched out [...]
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Blending In Again

1st
Apr. × ’10
By Sarah
“What is it that made them so American?” my friend asked on the phone. “Well,” I hesitated, “I don’t know…they played volleyball shirtless on the beach?  They had this cheery, earnest quality spiked by a pip sort of sarcasm?  Their clothes?  The way the intonation of their sentences always so definitively went down at the end [...]
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