After spending the two months prior grieving for what I was about to lose, I left Seattle on the 29th of June with a recently tuned Subaru Forester full of old tax records and summer-weight clothes. Three weeks in a dorm room in Lawrence, Kansas, teaching the Intensive Novel workshop for the center for the Study of Science Fiction; ten days on the library floor at my parents' house in Rice Lake, Wisconsin; a week camping here in Raleigh before I got into my apartment last week. Seven weeks, t...