My brother and I walked into the hostel, after getting buzzed in through the otherwise locked door, and I started talking. “We have a reservation for that room,” I said. I pointed out the door…

It was 4:20am. The alarm sounded or I wouldn’t have woken up for another four hours. The sound of rain hit me next. Rain. Rain on the day I was supposed to hike up to…

Take a breath. Calm down. Okay. Writers should only use exclamation points when they literally want to shout what they’re saying. I rarely shout when when I’m talking like this, so I rarely use exclamation…