http://lethebashar.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/lethe-returns-to-the-backpackers-inn/ Las Vegas Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:40:00 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://lethebashar.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/lethe-returns-to-the-backpackers-inn/#comment-116 Chris Poirier Sun, 19 Oct 2008 06:33:18 +0000 http://lethebashar.wordpress.com/?p=16#comment-116 Excellent couple of chapters. Nicely described, good dialogue, well-integrated reflection. Solid. Excellent couple of chapters. Nicely described, good dialogue, well-integrated reflection. Solid.

]]> http://lethebashar.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/lethe-returns-to-the-backpackers-inn/#comment-38 TD Sat, 03 May 2008 17:32:03 +0000 http://lethebashar.wordpress.com/?p=16#comment-38 Seems like a breakthrough, to me, from what I'm reading of Tess' assessment. Hope you enjoy the new chapter of TD as much. Seems like a breakthrough, to me, from what I’m reading of Tess’ assessment. Hope you enjoy the new chapter of TD as much.

]]> http://lethebashar.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/lethe-returns-to-the-backpackers-inn/#comment-34 Lethe Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:44:02 +0000 http://lethebashar.wordpress.com/?p=16#comment-34 Wow, I'm surprised it elicited such a powerful response . . . I mean, I can understand but it's just surprising to hear that . . . yeah, this is a gruesome, seedy life and nobody should have to go through it . . . Wow, I’m surprised it elicited such a powerful response . . . I mean, I can understand but it’s just surprising to hear that . . . yeah, this is a gruesome, seedy life and nobody should have to go through it . . .

]]> http://lethebashar.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/lethe-returns-to-the-backpackers-inn/#comment-33 Tess Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:12:25 +0000 http://lethebashar.wordpress.com/?p=16#comment-33 This made my mind and stomach shudder. A tightness in my throat .... so desperate, so incredibly scary...to live that and survive it. I think I would've been lost and never found....if I found that escape at different times in my life. Hmm. that's it. There was a time when I was entering a main highway in central denver...the lane merged and a semi was coming up behind me, in my lane...so fast I could feel the pressure change and the car wobble sideways (or that's how my memory tells it). I remember telling myself to breathe....I had pulled over to the side of the road/bridge, hands shaking. So close to death. This is how I felt reading your story about crack. Scared. The picture of who you were is coming into focus....and I'm not sure how I feel about that... It does make you more human, flawed. But you would be a complex character without your life experience of drugs, I think. Tess This made my mind and stomach shudder. A tightness in my throat …. so desperate, so incredibly scary…to live that and survive it. I think I would’ve been lost and never found….if I found that escape at different times in my life. Hmm. that’s it. There was a time when I was entering a main highway in central denver…the lane merged and a semi was coming up behind me, in my lane…so fast I could feel the pressure change and the car wobble sideways (or that’s how my memory tells it). I remember telling myself to breathe….I had pulled over to the side of the road/bridge, hands shaking. So close to death. This is how I felt reading your story about crack. Scared.
The picture of who you were is coming into focus….and I’m not sure how I feel about that… It does make you more human, flawed. But you would be a complex character without your life experience of drugs, I think.
Tess

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