Breka Blakeslee is a Seattle-based writer and artist whose work plays with failure and liminality, and who keeps writing autobiographically despite trying not to. A co-founder of Letter [r] Press, Breka has an MFA from the University of Washington Bothell, work forthcoming in Fiction International, and a novel to finish. This piece is an excerpt from the beginning of that novel, Probably It Will Not Be Okay, to be published in the Fellow Travelers series next year.