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Apr 25Liked by Cintra Wilson

Great story! I never knew that you American people knew the word ‘ponce’. It somehow felt too English to survive export. Next thing you’ll be telling me that you have ‘nonce’ freely available (prison slang for a paedophile), which only gained wider circulation in the late 90s here in England, and is now rapidly moving towards being an ironic term of affection, like ‘cunt’ or ‘wanker’, though I advise extreme caution for any non-natives attempting to use it, as contextual allowances are extremely nuanced.

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Apr 25Liked by Cintra Wilson

“…with lots of shag carpeting and spider plants and bean bag orgies.” Reminds me of my childhood. Two out of three, anyway.

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Apr 26Liked by Cintra Wilson

2025 MacArthur Foundation Fellows

Cintra Wilson is a writer engineering disparate new models of linguistic stewardship that bear profoundly humorous witness to the transformative articulation of language intersecting with cultural experience. She write good.

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Apr 25·edited Apr 26Liked by Cintra Wilson

Ol' Cubit over here sounds like he'd be one of the denizens of the Regal Beagle, if it a) were real, and b) located in, or near San Francisco.

All's well that ends well?

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Apr 25Liked by Cintra Wilson

Oh, my! Oh, my! Cintra you're my favourite.

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Apr 25Liked by Cintra Wilson

Next time I draw a heart in the dust on a beige vehicle, it’s going to have a big C with an arrow piercing and a few drops of blood. 🩸💘🩸

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Apr 25Liked by Cintra Wilson

What a good story, and it made me think of all those odd encounters with those drivers I met hitchhiking. Thank goodness I was too big to be molested, though not too big to be propositioned.

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I loved this! It reminded me of my own hitchhiking antics around NZ and Europe years ago - the situations of potential risk we casually put ourselves into on a regular basis that we would never dream of doing these days. I loved CCC III!

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Apr 25Liked by Cintra Wilson

Great stuff. The world needs more Ignatius O’Reilly references. And Clayton Cubit Cartwright III! On the Ponderosa, we all called him Hoss. Someday, I hope to meet a guy named Hoss III.

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Apr 25Liked by Cintra Wilson

Yikes!

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Apr 25Liked by Cintra Wilson

Whenever I get a notification that you have a new piece of writing, I get as excited as hearing the sound of a slot machine paying off. I always stop whatever I am doing and just read/listen just marveling at your use of language. I was so disappointed at the end of the story, then I stopped and looked around feeling bereft and then noticed that I was holding a cold unopened Coke up in the air the entire time. And now my thumb hurts.

How can I send you some money to repair your car?

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confederacy of dunces pun, love it

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Triple Ahh

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Apr 25Liked by Cintra Wilson

That painting of ‘Sonny’ made me think of Ricky from ‘Trailer Park Boys’. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0290988/

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great opening sentence....you used every Toole in the toolbox here

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Nice one mate!

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