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 ...
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...
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 ...