Note from the Editor, Issue 4

As a child, July often meant a road trip with the family. We’d pile into the station wagon—a solid blue, Oldsmobile Cutlass Cruiser which I later totaled ...

Two Dollars to Show

I am a lonely old man in the corner booth of an all-night diner. On the table before me is a plate greasy with fried eggs and hash browns, a plate I’ll eventual...

By Truth Told

“Your daddy got the TB, huh?” Lori Lane said. “Yep,” I replied. Lori dragged the toe of her shoe across the dirt. “My daddy had it, but his doctor cleared it up...

The Dying Composer

Having been discovered on the floor of his loge after a Wagner opera, the dying composer is snatched up by friends and taken to his town house. The stern doctor...

Reckless Biking

While riding my bicycle, I almost hit a police car that is idling on the street. “Take it easy,” a cop says to me through his window. I realize I’m breaking the...

Now You Know How It Is

My girlfriend—get this—keeps asking me to take her back to my place. Aren’t you rushing things? I say. You may be twenty-eight but I’m nineteen. We do have a go...