Main Piece: The following is transcribed from a conversation between myself, GK, and the informant, CZ. CZ: Can you name three consecutive days without using the words: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. GK: I don’t know. How? CZ: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. Background: The informant had heard this riddle from a camp… Continue Reading »
[The subject is CB. Her words are bolded, mine are not.] Context: CB is one of my friends, and a sophomore student in college. Both of her parents are lawyers in the military, so she was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, but has also lived in Germany, Kansas, and Oregon. The following is a song that… Continue Reading »
Context: My informant is a 20 year old student at the University of Southern California (USC). This conversation took place one night at Cafe 84, a place where many students at USC go to study at night. The informant and I sat at a table with two other people, and we were in an open… Continue Reading »
Main piece: If you turned 18 and wanted to sign out of your Wilderness Therapy program, the running conspiracy was that you had to walk from deep in the mountains all the way down to Main Base Camp in downtown Salt Lake City. That’s about a 2 week walk, but you weren’t allowed to hitchhike… Continue Reading »
Abstract: This piece is about a legendary serial killer that roams the woods near Camp Seven Hills in New York. Main Piece: “Informant: So I spent a lot of summers at a Girl Scout camp called Camp Seven Hills. And of course there were a lot of ghost stories around the fire, but every year they… Continue Reading »