"I don’t remember attempting to walk the straight line with arms outstretched, a common first stage..."

“I don’t remember attempting to walk the straight line with arms outstretched, a common first stage of field sobriety tests. However, I do remember [Officer] Timmons asking me to take a Breathalyzer test as he pulled me from the hedge I’d apparently fallen into.”

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Grant Shoemaker, the lead character and narrator in my novel-in-progress D.U.I.: A Fake Memoir of a Real Asshole
(via davidvienna)

I’m writing a novel and—because it’s not women’s lit or genre fiction—the industry feels there’s no market for it. So I’ve decided to post occasional excerpts on Facebook and my non-parenting Tumblr and see what happens. Enjoy.