The Adderall Diaries by Stephen Elliott

Author:Stephen Elliott
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-1-55597-012-3
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2010-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

After Katie breaks up with me I catch a ride to the Burning Man Art Festival six hours outside San Francisco in the Nevada salt flats. The same festival Hans’ mother was attending the weekend Nina disappeared. Burning Man lasts for more than a week and the open playa becomes a city of thirty thousand, a giant party filled with powder, pills, music, and disposable art.

“I wasn’t going to come back here,” I say to an old man from Tel Aviv. We’re under a shade canopy, resting our feet in the cold water of a child’s pool where people dump the melted ice from their coolers.

“But here you are.”

“Here I am.”

He asks if I would like some mushrooms but I say no. I tell him the last time I was here was 2001 when I came straight from doing a story in the Middle East, hanging out with kids throwing bottles of gas at Israeli soldiers in Hebron. I spent a month in Jerusalem and the occupied territories at the height of the Second Intifada. I was full of conflict. When I got to Burning Man all the drugs and “I love yous” were too much.

“I was there in the beginning,” the old man says. “I graduated high school just after the Six Day War in 1967. I served two years in the military as commander of a ceremonial guard for the central commander, Rehavam Ze’evi, killed many years later in his hotel.”

“I remember,” I say. “Israel responded by taking over the Palestinian Authority building in East Jerusalem. Then there was the Sbarro’s bombing and the next day the flattened police station in Ramallah. Maybe I have the order wrong. I was there for all of that. It was just before 9/11.”

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