Tim Barrus Blog
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Tim Barrus: Old bone skulls hung from crosses all around the garden. Juju.
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I started the garden this summer a little early. My hope is to harvest before the September heat destroys everything. I have learned how to can fish using a pressure cooker. The day will arrive when we will begin to run out of tricks. It will be too hot to…
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Tim Barrus: The Virtues of Repair
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I want to write stories that are at their core, an in-between-ness, I call these these stories our Second Selves.
Everyone screams blood about diversity, and that is fine. No diversity is like a forest with only one kind of tree. Only certain people can tell certain stories. Only the…
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Tim Barrus: The Aside of Horizontal
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What do you really glimpse in a collage of horizontals. Little electric shots and then, it’s over.
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Tim Barrus: Stop Investigating This It’s Mean
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I want to be nice to you so you’ll go away. Something tells me, you are not going away. I was there. I was there. I was there. You were not there. The cops were not there. The school district was there. Special ed teachers came to my house. It…
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Tim Barrus: The Screenplay Is Finally Finished.
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When you need money, write a screenplay.
All you are selling them is time. They don’t buy many screenplays outright. Usually, they buy an option. I cannot for the life of me figure out why I fired ICM. I’m stupid. Actually, I fired them because they wanted me to publish…
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Tim Barrus: It Isn’t Going To Take A Photograph By Itself
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Your lucid moment has not risen to the level of ourselves. Endless grief. What does it mean. Nothing. A rusty pickup stopped. And we got in. You misplaced your camera in that empty house.
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Tim Barrus: It Had 2 B Done
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Divergent moment. Stand still, Raven.
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Tim Barrus: Lovers and Thieves
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I would never use your real name in a novel I am writing where the main character is demented. Why would I do that. I might do that. But I didn’t. If you got it if you got it you go boom boom. And my runaway eye eye. If you…
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Tim Barrus: Minimize Your Risk
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We lived upstairs. We did not go out much. We kept the place fully stocked. Wichita whores chill. Crystal sing just sing. Coal free. Keep your shoes on. It was a mistake to have just have left me standing alone. Go. Go. Take yourself home. I am home.
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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I am conflicted about inclusion. I have been in the thick of it. In some ways, it’s just managing chaos. After a year of inclusion, my typical 6th graders never once invited the disabled in – the disabled kids were not their friends, they were just obstacles in the classroom…