A tale of hunger, hope, and connection.
Pad Thai with a Bad Guy is a rhyming, true-to-life tale about making a spontaneous drive to the Blue Ridge Mountains in October 2025 to meet at a restaurant, and somehow I left even hungrier. This is who I would call my online dating “Final Boss” because maybe, hopefully, I’m done after this. Please God.
I was driving from Charleston to Charlotte for Queen City Zinefest, and while I was at a gas station, I noticed this very tall, very mysterious, very handsome dude in my dating app matches. Since I’ve got my radius set to “WHEREVER, WHY NOT?”, I felt a rush of adrenaline and impulsive bad-decision making course through my veins when I read a message from him that said “Come to Asheville. Meet me for Pad Thai.” So I did it for the plot.
It takes two crazies to make a crazy story, but I think this one had me defeated. At least bad decisions lead to good stories, but I’m gonna have to find some new muses in the wild after this one.
8 pages of illustrated rhymes
1 mb file size
A tale of hunger, hope, and connection.
Pad Thai with a Bad Guy is a rhyming, true-to-life tale about making a spontaneous drive to the Blue Ridge Mountains in October 2025 to meet at a restaurant, and somehow I left even hungrier. This is who I would call my online dating “Final Boss” because maybe, hopefully, I’m done after this. Please God.
I was driving from Charleston to Charlotte for Queen City Zinefest, and while I was at a gas station, I noticed this very tall, very mysterious, very handsome dude in my dating app matches. Since I’ve got my radius set to “WHEREVER, WHY NOT?”, I felt a rush of adrenaline and impulsive bad-decision making course through my veins when I read a message from him that said “Come to Asheville. Meet me for Pad Thai.” So I did it for the plot.
It takes two crazies to make a crazy story, but I think this one had me defeated. At least bad decisions lead to good stories, but I’m gonna have to find some new muses in the wild after this one.
8 pages of illustrated rhymes
1 mb file size
