Just over 48 hours out from his re-entry into the chaos of race day, Jim was succumbing to an anxiety he had only barely known before. As he sat on the edge of the bathtub, the hot water steaming the room around him, he contemplated the excuses he could use to skip work. “I need [...]

As he awoke from his fitful slumber at 6:45, Jim McClary’s first thought was “Pretty god-damn cold for a subtropical paradise,”. He glanced around the room hazily, contemplating a short trip to the thermostat, or to the closet for an extra blanket. But as he stepped foot out of bed, he knew he had inadvertently [...]

We, as humans, evolved into distance runners in order to hunt, kill, and consume sprinters. In lieu of the ability to run at a clip of 30 miles per hour, we developed the tenacity and patience to run for hours on end, until those fleeter-footed creatures succumbed to consummate exhaustion, and were overrun. To run, [...]

“Oh, you’ll wanna find Phil, then. He’ll be the dago fella that walks like a duck.” Bienvenue à Belle Chasse. We had arrived after a somewhat harrowing journey of missed expressway entrances, passive-aggressive jabs at Will’s navigational ineptitude, and my own not-so-successful attempts to distinguish between Woodland Hwy and Woodland Rd. For a moment, in my [...]

In lieu of something interesting, please accept this place-marker of a post as my promise of something far more radical and provocative to come. I should be penning a short story in three or four parts starting in about two weeks, which should prove to be entirely self-aggrandizing and unpublishable. It’s bound to make critics [...]