A Map to Normal

Unfold the map and choose a random tertiary road in the right-hand corner to start. Follow the tiny road’s meandering in spaciousness, interrupted only by occasional intersections with aimless white lines. Clots of streets will begin to form near these connections, bleeding out borders of townships, then counties. As you draw closer to your destination, the road will straighten and widen. It will turn an officious blue, urge you forward, count down your exits. Finally, it unravels, wrapping under and over itself, forming a four-petaled blossom, the center of which is where you once longed to be: back to Normal.

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