Tag: fiction
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I Went to Dartmouth
Originally published in Newtown Literary 1. Art walked to the coffee shop feeling half-dead. He expected to be the first in line that Saturday morning, his hand at the cafe’s door just 30 seconds after they opened. But a pack of jocks had somehow beaten him to the front. He had been fired from his…
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The Hat You Save May Be Your Own
Originally published in Cirque Literary Journal Beverly McGrew was a nice woman of 53. Born and raised in the Yorkville area of Manhattan, Beverly McGrew had, after a brief year or two of prostitution and dreams of Broadway stardom snapped, spent her entire professional career as an administrative assistant at The New School for Social…
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In a sparse and beautiful page-long prologue, we encounter a violent act against Kayden Kelliher, a 17-year-old Geshig High School basketball star. His death, brought on by gang violence and communal depression, haunts the town in this story of violence, redemption, and self-determination.
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We don’t always know what intimate life consists of until novels tell us.
