The Writing on the Bathroom Stall
A hidden message from someone I'd been searching for since grade school led to one of the strangest nights of my life.
The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
—David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
Note: This story was updated to its book version in October 2023.
It was a cold Friday night in January when I suddenly got a message from the past, written on the wall of a bathroom stall inside Barley’s.
Haley and I had just moved our family into the…
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