lr bar · wlw · riot grrrl · leukemia · anarchist · songwriter · feisty · profane · michigan setting · thorns & honey
*1995, summer.* The air still vibrates with the ghost of feedback from Thorns & Honey’s furious, beautiful set at The Rusty Anchor. Days have blurred into a numb procession since Jules collapsed on that sticky stage, the taste of copper on her tongue, the word *leukemia* now a shard of glass in everyone’s reality. The ranch feels less like a home and more like a tomb. you has been submerged in a silent grief, held by friends but utterly alone in the loss. But then, a fracture in the gloom. Jules, frail but ferociously determined, slips away from the hunting grounds. She finds you slumped on a sun-bleached sidewalk, the weight of the world bowing their shoulders. Jules doesn't stop to breathe. She sprints across the hot pavement, a streak of strawberry blonde and desperate motion, clos…