Thank you. And yeah, my mom still owns the place despite having moved away a while ago. She’s needed to sell it for years and it looms over her, but in a way that makes it hard to deal with.

I lived in a series of houses and apartments that could have each claimed to be a horror movie set. Once with my best friend, I was the caretaker for an abandoned house. We slept in sleeping bags next to space heaters and tried to ignore the walls which were all painted in bright colors and then smeared in…