The story is called “Us and Them” by David Sedaris. The story is takes place in North Carolina, the author and his family moved a lot. They are originally from the state of New York. The house the author lives in is rented. He hears of a family that does not own a TV. That sparks his interests, so he watches from across the street during the day, and then at night he sneaks up to the window and watches. He is a very nosey boy it seems like. The family he watches is the Tomkeys. Towards the beginning of October they start going to the lake on the weekends, and the said this after they start going away “I felt like my favorite show had been canceled.” It seems that the author doesn’t do much either. The day after Halloween the Tomkeys show up at the author’s door trick or treating, they are a little late. They spent all of their time at the lake, they knew that it was Halloween because they left candy for others to get. There wasn’t any left, so the author’s mother told him and is sisters to give some of their candy to them. The author did, but his did not. After that, the author started hating the Tomkeys. This story got interesting and funny in places.


The story is called “Mick Jagger wants me” by Susan Jane Gilman. This story tells of two girls that linger out in front of a recording studio waiting to see the Rolling Stones. This story takes place over several weeks, so on nights that they didn’t have school they would attend wild parties. At these parties they would drink, smoke, and make out with everyone. One day, after staying up all night, they were out in front of the studio and see Keith Richards come out with his little boy. Then one of the girls gets to thinking about what they look like out there on that sidewalk, then decides to go home. She wanted to meet Mick Jagger at dinner party or some kind of sophisticated event, not on a sidewalk looking like a bum.