Agatha French

A List of What I'll Write About, Compiled Earlier This Morning.

• Pool shadows = whales.
• Blackberry bushes scratch your thighs.
• I am an Indian. Why? (Let’s ask grandma.)
• Soon you’ll ask me to play and I’ll be the one saying I’m too busy.
• The procession of uniformed catholic children walking to church in B.H. during lent.
• Spencer’s photo in Sister Leonella’s office: was it really there?
• Mom’s shrink was dying in Hawaii.
• Pushed off the bench.
• Pneumonia/skin and bones/lips chapped raw. Mom and Louise: “You look so pretty.”
• The meteor shower.
• Mountain man rendezvous.
• “I made that fox pelt quill.” – Mom.
• Muddy Waters and Janis Joplin in Markleeville.
• Mom meets the devil, says no to hell.
• Mom’s lists/Mom’s summary of Mexican history.
• Almost dying in the seaplane on our way to see some lepers.
• Good white wine looks like clear pee.
• The turkey photo: Amy.
• Disney cookbook – I don’t remember making snowballs, but she says we did.
• Pan dulce and Nescafe = Old Mexican ladies with perms and bruises.
• Taco parties.
• The way Lupe chops an onion.
• Spencer stole the koi; I named him Lou.
• Terri on the tennis court.
• Evolution according to Lupe.
• Who set Dad’s tapes on fire? (Mom speculation, like “I think he murdered his wife”?)
• Little Mom behind the barn.
• The bees. Charlie. Barn door raft. Allergic and anorexic and shirtless.
• “I don’t know; I think the world is full of evil now.” – Mom at the B&B.
• Mom’s room/house. Recycled wood gives kids splinters.
• Dad’s room/house. Cold.
• Filling up the bathtub for blue gale.
• “Why can’t you tell me your mantra?”
• Haunted hotel rooms.
• The glass playhouse.
• Mom becomes a catholic.
• Cherokee – oranges, butterflies, roses, swimming, chickens + something else.
• “Remember when you were on a plane that was hijacked?” “No.”
• “They’ll record your breathing before they kill you and then play it through the intercom.”
• “We imitate each other’s faces.” “That’s pretty primitive.”
• Quiqua’s room. Hologram Jesus.
• The red-light in the bathroom.
• Old dogs with bad hips walk like models.
• Pine nuts and rosehips. Baskets.
• Saltwater lake + mocha milkshake = bleeding exema.
• June lake has no bottom.

Agatha French has written for oneforthetable.com, Edible LA, and The LA Weekly Online. She lives in Los Angeles, California.