You thought YOU were weird as a kid? My girlhood obsession with chickens, paired with extreme boredom and social ineptitude, made for imaginary dynamite in the mind of young Jen. Yes, the charm of chickens rendered me unwilling to deal with the human world. Did I ever recover? You decide!

I'll be reading all about it when I present "Chicken Monster" (Other Magazine, Issue #9) on Thursday, April 20 at James Warner's lit event Inside Story Time. It's all going down at the Rickshaw Stop, 155 Fell St. (@ Van Ness) from 7 - 9pm. See the flyer and read about the evening's other writers at www.insidestorytime.com.

I'd love to see you there.

Peace,
JBA