Willow Barnosky

Willow Barnosky teaches English as a Second Language and Adult Literacy to Spanish speakers in the San Francisco Bay Area. She lives in San Jose, California.

The Exorcism

So there was a man named Ed, and I really liked him at first. I thought he had an interesting life story, although I didn’t know all the details. I knew all that I cared to know, all of the essentials, but when I tried to tell other people about Ed, they had the tiresome tendency to ask for more information: “Oh, but how’d he meet his wife?” or “Why doesn’t he have any children?” or, even more exasperatingly, “What kind of car does he drive?”