Tim Barrus: Dirt Bike Town

The Novel I am writing now: Literary Fiction: Dirt Bike Town by Tim Barrus I ask you. How many autistic, neurodivergent, authors do you really know. Most of us mask it, I do. I am not Romeo Void, but I do love him. Romeo Void will be starring in the…

Tim Barrus: Dirt Bike Town

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WE WERE PRACTICING SCENERIOS AROUND GETTING OUT OF DODGE

The grit that goes inside your mouth like eating flies and gnats and sand and dust. Cat’s Breath is the name of a stripper who lives outside of Vegas in a trailer park. You have never met anyone quite like Agnes. She has other performing names. Cat’s Breath is just…

The Children Of The Inquisition Watched Everything

Scott’s Woods was behind the hospital. There is a bridge in the middle of the woods. We boys played all around the bridge. We swung like Simians in a Banyan Tree. Branch to branch. I escaped Lansing General. It’s never all that hard. You look like you know where you’re…

Dirt Bike Town Florist

White tulips in the front meant all is well. Red roses in the front meant all is not well. Anything with baby’s breath meant run for your life. If you see too many red flags all at the same time, you can bet your skinny ass, someone has been tracking…

THE BIKE TREMBLES BETWEEN MY LEGS

     New York Times      I am a Marxist for a reason. It has a center. It is just. It doesn’t care what you think because it’s not about Karl Marx. It is one thing to explain capitalism, religion, racism and poverty. It is another thing to explore moral vacuums, and corrupt…

Dirt Bike Town

Going Rogue: The Blue Ridge

Brambles I live in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Quarantine has not meant that much to me. I can escape on my dirt bike. But it’s been a great year for less traffic. Traffic is cyclical, too. In a normal year, I can go months without even seeing another human being.…

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TIM BARRUS, NEW YORK TIMES I DID NOT SPEAK OF DESIRE Village life, and trade it in for life on a dirt bike. Everything I own fits into one canvas camera bag. If it won’t fit in the bag, I don’t need it. The dirt bike takes me places I…