I’m new. Here at the department store I’ve sold myself as a stockboy, part-time, after school. I don’t have a car so Lamar Croft drives us in his ’66 Oldsmobile 442 from school down Sawyer Road at 110 miles per hour until we come to Allgood Turnpike. A right turn, more speed, and then we’re [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2009
Hundreds of Tiny Lights: Fiction by Anne Earney
June 2, 2009 – 3:12 am
1. The sun goes down. I stand on the marble patio with Mark, Sara and Sam, everyone’s back to the west, except mine. My wine glass refracts pinks and yellows as the sun dips. It begins to seem possible to relax. I catch Mark’s eye, hoping the pink on my cheeks seems to reflect the [...]
