Walking through a college campus, I always smell a hint of cloves. I can't help but be surprised that people still smoke them -- I was similarly surprised to discover people smoked them at all. The first time I encountered clove cigarettes, in the first few furious days of freshman year, I thought they might …
Mr Brightside
Whenever the song by the Killers, 'Mr Brightside,' comes on, I am suddenly 18 again and waking up in my dorm room in Los Angeles as it plays on my radio alarm clock. I am not hungover – I didn't drink my freshman year – but I am exhausted from refusing to turn down any …
Kate Thorman 