DARCEY STEINKE WILL BE READING AT BROOKLYN READING WORKS ON THURSDAY NOV. 16TH AT 8 P.M.

At the Old Stone House. Fifth Avenue between 3rd and 4th Streets. 8 p.m.

Excerpt from Jesus Saves by Darcey Steinke:

Oh she was high as they flew nowhere in particular in Ted’s white Ford with the harelip fender. Her dirty blonde hair whipped around her face. A single strand caught on her tongue as she sucked the sweet pot smoke. Her lungs tightened and she coughed a little, ran one finger down her cheekbone and set the taut hair free, then pressed the joint into the ashtray. Tears swamped her vision and the car swelled gently around her. The light changed from red to a textured leaflike green, as if life itself gestated behind the curve of glass. It was a sign for her to levitate off the seat, slip out the window and fly up, like a piece of paper caught in a whirlwind, high over this place until the houses looked like strings of Christmas lights and the mall a Middle Eastern mecca.