Slouching towards madmen.

Callie Neylan
5 min readFeb 20, 2022

Sirens blared and lights flashed red and blue as I passed Seattle’s Central Library. I saw cops and paramedics huddled at 4th and James giving an unconscious man rigorous CPR, his head one with the concrete, ashen and gray. It was weird, violent, and intimate.

Two male bodies moving in unison up and down, one of them half naked, the other on top. It felt like…

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Callie Neylan

Emoting, frustrated human. Two sourdough starters in fridge. I don’t write nearly as much as I want to. / @neylano