I met the juggling master, Brian, for my first lesson, in a park he’d named on the north side of town, an area I don’t know too well. When I asked over the phone how I would recognize him, he snorted. Sure enough, wind whipped hard through the bare branches and there he was on […]
Fiction 75
Matt Debenham: Beard of Bees
Try not to think of the bees as stinging you, I tell my son. Think of them as snuffling. Like a dog would do! “But it hurts,” says Jasper. His eyes still hold the last of his tears. The real waterworks are only minutes gone, the boundless, shameless wailing of a six-year-old. “Okay, well, to […]
Steven Collis: Potty Training in a Gas Station Bathroom
I read once that some potty-training children emotionally invest in their first crap, as if it were a part of them they don’t want to lose. So in the gas station bathroom, my wife sobbing in the car, I try to show patience as Campbell frets over his poop bobbing in the toilet. But my […]