A Playlist and a Story

I lived in Richmond, Virginia for eight months after I graduated from college. I worked as a cook, made a best friend, got over a lover, got under some lovers, and learned a lot of life lessons the hard way. After stressful days in a testosterone run kitchen, I came home to my porch, turned on some tunes and opened a good book. Being alone on that porch, watching the world go, created memories that soothe and haunt me even two years later. I remember the warmth of sweet calm, but I fear the inability to return to it. This playlist helps me at least a little bit.

Kristin Walters works at the University of Chicago and at a wine shop called Lush. She spends most of her time trying to write short fiction and worrying about graduate school. She’ll be in Central and Eastern Europe in September and October. She loves puppies.