The Daily Sentence

It wasn't yet evening and the temperature had dropped to twenty below—I tried to pee in the snow and instead I became chapped—so badly chapped that I had to remove my britches and undergarments (for the pain was too great) and encase myself in small bits of aloe vera which I would pinch off and butterfly, holding each one in place until it dried to my skin—exactly one thousand and one pinches it took; from twelve plants. -Aaron DeWeese