Remarks by an Archaeologist Excavating Ruins, or by Your Dad While Clearing Out the Fridge for Thanksgiving?

Audrey Burges
The Belladonna Comedy
2 min readNov 24, 2020

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It’s really cramped in here.

Let’s make some room to work. (Image credit: Photo by nrd on Unsplash)
  1. Do you know where the trowel is? Or maybe some tongs?
  2. What do you think we’ll find in this box?
  3. Just because we can’t tell how old this is, doesn’t mean it’s not worth keeping.

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Author, THE MINISCULE MANSION OF MYRA MALONE (Berkley 2023); work in McSweeney’s, Belladonna, Slackjaw, & elsewhere. Twitter: @audrey_burges; audreyburges.com.