Perfect Pitch
She asked me if I could help out with a friend of hers. He had problems with alcohol, women, and drugs. I already knew about the women, because every pretty girl in town seemed to have slept with him.
Kirie Pedersen’s writing has appeared in Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public Radio program, Eleven Eleven, Chaffey Review, Caper Literary Journal, Avatar Review, Utne Reader, Seven Days, Wisconsin Review, Eclipse, RiverSedge, Alcoholism the National Magazine, Regeneration (Rodale Press), Glossolalia, American Motorcyclist, Folly Magazine, The View from Here, Northwest People, Teachers and Writers, A Gourmet Notebook, r.kv.r.y Quarterly Literary Review, Laurel Review (Greentower Press), and elsewhere. She holds a M.A. in fiction writing and literature, and divides her time between the rural Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, the Upper West Side in New York City, the Upper Ojai in California, and other wild places. She blogs at kiriepedersen.com.