March was a little ridiculous, but I’m looking forward to April as a sort of reprieve. I only have one reading on the docket, and it’s one that I’m really excited about. On Friday night, I’ll be a part of Chris Bower’s Fuck Storms: Imaginary Weather Phenomena, featuring stories/poems/monsoons inspired by made-up weather (I wrote a couple of “fact-sheets” for Miyagi’s Revenge and Suddenly Everything Turns to Glass). I had been working on a story about a guy who gets swept up into a tornado, only to discover an entire town living inside that tornado, but I think that’s been abandoned for something stranger. The show’s at a bar I’ve never heard of, Ray’s, at 3049 N. Kimball Ave. Here’s an awesome image by Susie Kirkwood to entice you: