One night, while settling into bed, we noticed the room darkening in an unnatural way. No trees or external light sources could explain it. The darkness collected in the northeast corner of the ceiling, and as we stared…
Around two years after high school my now husband and I moved to Quincy, Illinois. Being 2006, we had to search the newspapers, Craigslist, drive neighborhoods, and ask around to find rentals available for us to look at. Among the first units we looked at was an “efficiency” apartment. Being from a small town where most rentals were entire houses we were unfamiliar with the term and went to go look.