story: The Fireman
author: Rick Bass
year: 2001
where: bedroom, clean sheets, mopped floors
note: makes me want to reread my favorite Rick Bass story
a line: “The way light bulbs melt and lean or point toward a fire’s origin– the gases in incandescent bulbs seeking, sensing that heat, so that you can often use them to tell where a fire started, the direction in which the light bulbs first begin to lean.”
samantha Neugebauer 