KRISTINE EVANS
didn’t partake in the slip ’n’ slide, but I did take the mushrooms.
It was a hot, sweat-slick day in Denton, Texas, and I was with my college roommate, the same boy who had been my boyfriend in kindergarten. Now he had a boyfriend and I didn’t. Thank god I’d gotten over him when I was five-and-a-half. Both our brothers were also there, along with about 10 other friends. Hence the baby pool. Hence the Crisco-enhanced slip-n-slide. And the psilocybin.
I am notoriously bad at drugs. The first time I smoked weed in high school, I went to the emergency room. I’ll just let that sink in for a moment.