Add to ORKGWhat you hold in your hands is a forced confluence: portions of three separate manuscripts -- two prose and one poetry -- which I have been working on concurrently during my time at Iowa State. The stories and essays about childhood, drawn from my own experiences growing up in a small town, belong to Grim Tales From Dinky Towns, a largely nonfictional manuscript that explores rurality and a child\u27s yearning to escape. The fiction pieces about musicians are from Playing for the Door, my fictional exploration of seven very real years I spent on the road as a professional rock musician. The poetry that is sprinkled throughout belongs to Everything\u27s a Verb, a completed poetry manuscript. Since I have decided to bring these pieces togethe...