The Best Little Shopping Strip in Texas
The red go-go boots are a half size too small, but I buy them anyway. It’s almost closing time at Mimi Shoes on South El Paso Street, just a few blocks from the Santa Fe bridge, which arcs south ove...
Can You Buy Yourself a Longer Life?
I walked into the sleek new longevity and health-optimization clinic on a sunny winter afternoon feeling especially haggard. Earlier in the week, a mysterious allergic reaction had covered much of my ...
In the Changing Suburb of Richardson, Del’s Stands Still
Although Del’s Charcoal Burgers is housed in an aging building, with blond bricks, a flat roof, and a Texas flag painted to look as if it were unfurling in the wind, it shows no signs of decay. A fe...
How Does a Therapist Treat “Trump Derangement Syndrome”?
So you’ve heard that men just won’t go to therapy—except in the setups to old jokes. You know the ones. A sad sack walks into the shrink’s office in the seventies with a domestic problem. His ...
The Town Fire
This story is published in collaboration with the Austin-based literary journal American Short Fiction. The grandfather and his grandson lived at opposite ends of a whitewashed wood-frame house on th...