A young man reflects on moments of friendship with two other boys; there is both an intimacy and a distance in their relationships. An air of melancholy suffuses the story. This story…
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“One of the Good Ones, or: It’s a Gas!” by Gordon B. White
During a hot summer of protests, a young cop participates, somewhat reluctantly, in an unauthorized experiment with an old psychoactive substance that some of his fellow cops intend to use on the…
“What the Forest Remembers” by Jennifer Egan
This story feels a bit like a mid-century John Cheever story – middle class professional men of the buttoned-up cul de sacs encounter a proto-hippie commune in the redwoods and partake of…