Tim Barrus: Getting Out Of Dodge Is A Repeated Paradigm of Hide and Seek

“Justin says hi.”

I exhaled.

I should have been surprised. Imagine the coincidence. I was not surprised. Justin and I had connected in a bus station toilet in Arkansas. The rats only came out at night. I could not sleep there. People do not sleep in Arkansas. They just pull their slow lengths along the big old bye and bye.