Tele Aadsen

writer - fisherman - listener

Making Change

  I was four­teen years old when a man grabbed me by the pussy. We were in the check­out line of our Pacif­ic North­west town’s Pay­less drug­store. It was ear­ly evening, one week before Valentine’s Day, and I was buy­ing a cas­sette tape as...

Hooked’s Big News

(Hang on, sweet­ies… We’re going to take the scenic drive.) On Feb­ru­ary 22, after metic­u­lous­ly shep­herd­ing my pro­pos­al through revi­sion after revi­sion, my agent Pamela pro­nounced it ready to shop. “Let’s go,” she wrote. Time passed in a dizzy­ing...

Life in the Gray: After Sandy Hook

I’m writ­ing to you from a fer­ry. Seat­ed alone on a mid­day cross­ing, star­ing into a mut­ed seascape. Ocean the green of beach glass, clouds shush­ing the sky; land’s faintest skele­ton peeks through sheets of rain. White­caps the only bright spots...