Note: If any of you are unfamiliar with the Young Street Bridge, it is a bridge in Aberdeen that Kurt Cobain lived under when he was kicked out of his house. He lived there after he dropped out of high school during Senior Year.
Copy of story: I wrote a copy there and folded it into a paper airplane. I chucked it in the river.
Worn wooden poles jut out of the slow streaming water. Various hues of brown. Scattered thoughts are written on the nearby table. The table lies with chipped red paint and splintering wood. The various statues erected, in honor. An old cassette rings through the tangled headphones of a Walkman. Emitting a staticy sound, rarely. Many stickers crowd benches and signs. A bird chirps from a nearby tree. Long locks flow in the frigid October air. The guardrails are stained green as rust creeps up and begins to take over. Vines begin to crawl. It teams up with algae. A car thuds along the bridge every once in a while. Graffiti stays. Some faded, some fresh. Leaves crash against each other. The music slowly fades as the cassette comes to an end...
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Come As You Are: Stories Written While Visting Washington's Grunge Sites
Short StoryOn my vacation through Washington, I wrote stories while visiting major Grunge sites. These stories are my feelings and descriptions of that exact moment in time. Unedited and raw. Written in that moment, left as they are.
