"Various Travels Into Imaginary Atlases (A Very Confused Linda)"
In a box she thinks came from her gramma's house, Linda finds a falling apart leather-bound volume of absurdly detailed maps and finely drawn illustrations of North Carolina. But all of the cities and towns and rivers and lakes have made-up names. She keeps finding counties she remembers visting as a girl, but all the names are not only wrong, but that feel like they're supposed to envoke some kind of farcial tale. Hillsborough is called RunOutOfGasVille, with an elegant line drawing that she thinks looks a lot like that 90's era Volvo station wagon she drove in college in a ditch on the side of the road. Asheville is instead labelled TossedCookiesTown, with an almost German Expressionist illustration of a woman with very similar to her own hairstyle apparently throwing up in a parking lot. But maybe the most unsettling is the impressionist scene that accompanies Arrested For Public Nudity City where Buxton is supposed to be.
She keeps flipping through the pages trying to understand if any of these are real? Some feel like they're from her past? Are the others from her future? Or is her memory faulty?