{"id":883,"date":"2019-09-26T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/?p=883"},"modified":"2025-02-25T10:38:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T18:38:43","slug":"andrew-gretes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/andrew-gretes\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue 84: Andrew Gretes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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About Andrew Gretes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Andrew Gretes is the author of How to Dispose of Dead Elephants (Sandstone Press, 2014). His fiction has appeared in New England Review, Witness, Sycamore Review, Booth, and other journals. His Twitter handle is @acgretes.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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A Profile of the Author<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Notes on \u201cMind Graffiti\u201d<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat if God got dementia?\u201d That\u2019s probably where the story began: as a question you ask yourself in the shower, eyes closed, mind squinting. If I\u2019m being more honest, I suppose I would say that the story was overdetermined: my dorky loyalty to Lord of the Rings, my fascination with the philosopher George Berkeley, my experience of being recently divorced\u2014too many causes to count. Among other things, it\u2019s also a story about friendship. Going on an insane quest and knowing that at least one person will have your back, no matter what happens: there\u2019s something quite comforting about that! So perhaps the story is an ode to Sancho Panza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Music, Food, Booze, Tattoos, Kittens, etc.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

What I\u2019ve been listening to? Well, recently I\u2019ve become a little obsessed with a podcast called \u201cEntitled Opinions\u201d by Robert Harrison. What if Jimi Hendrix was a Dante scholar at Stanford? The answer is Robert Harrison. As for music, The Kinks are always fun. I had a nice moment watching one of the new Marvel movies (Endgame). Halfway through the movie, a lesser-known Kinks song began playing (\u201cSupersonic Rocket Ship\u201d). In the theater, I immediately perked up and turned to my brother, excited to inform him of my vast knowledge of the British music-hall genre. My brother preemptively said, \u201cShut up, I don\u2019t care.\u201d The song ended. Thor and Hulk engaged in dialogue. I felt special.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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“Mind Graffiti” by Andrew Gretes<\/a><\/h2>\n\n

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