I got an inspiring newsletter from VE Schwab today, and decided to start my story with a dead body. Since that’s the end, why not. Where it went from there got really interesting. Themes of suicide, existential angst, asburdity, occultism, and other tasty subjects woven into a lecture on Kurt Cobain’s suicide, given by the dead man 4 years prior. I didn’t mean to write a whodunnit, but maybe it’s also in there, in this memoir for America in 2025.