73exposures commemorates the trip of a lifetime two friends took together ten years ago – a trip that had them covering 27 US states and some 16,000 miles over the course of 73 days.

However, 73exposures is not a travel blog.  It is also not a collection of digitalized sepia-colored pictures, and it certainly isn’t a blog about two grown-up women flashing any different 73 naked parts of themselves (though if that’s what you’re looking for, you will find it somewhere online, for sure).

73exposures presents 73 literary snapshots, each of them inspired by one particular day of that trip.  It is a way of looking back at personal memories and presenting them in a new, literary form: as a poem, a piece of short short fiction or an essay.  It is also an exercise in remembering the good (seriously considering Superman as a boy’s name in Terlingua, Texas), the bad (mistaking javelinas for aliens in Bottomless Lakes State Park near Roswell, New Mexico) and the ugly (getting lost in New Orleans, Louisiana. Drunk. On buses. At night.)

73exposures is an attempt to rekindle the authors‘ relationships with language for its own sake (and not as a sales tool), and a kick in the ass to return to abandoned projects.  It represents their commitment to becoming, once again, writers without a prefix (copy- or otherwise), at least part-time.

Everything on 73exposures is at least 49% true.  There are scars to prove it.