Faraway Sleep
Corner of Ashland and Augusta.
Corner of Ashland and Augusta.
I live in the ‘burbs and commute to work in Chicago every Monday through Friday on the Metra Union Pacific Northwest Line. I found this folded-up note in the Arlington Heights train station parking. Lots of schoolkids also ride this train line, and this note undoubtedly belongs to one of them.
One cold as fuck February night in Chicago in 1999, I went to my old apartment at Fullerton and Kedzie to watch the movie “Ran” with my friend and old roommate Kelli, who still lived there. Around 3 a.m. I stumbled out to my car, full of war-fatigue from the movie, and thinking all kinds … Continued
Found on the #77 eastbound Belmont bus on a Wednesday evening.
Found this is an old box. Didn’t know Mickey played lute!
I found this in a shopping cart at Dominicks.
Found on a side walk in a gutter under the El tracks near Chicago and Franklin.
We found this late one night after walking back from the Planetarium area of the lakefront. We were walking through the pedestrian and bicycle underpass and saw it, handwritten side up.
My friend Justin and I found this Post-it when cleaning off the desk of a recently fired co-worker. The circumstances of her leaving were dubious and she was kind of a mystery herself, so this became all the more curious a message to us. I promptly taped it to my desk where it’s been the … Continued
Found on the floor at my job. It makes me so happy.