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October 6, 2026
2.2 Miles Before Sunset
It had been weeks without a story for my table, and I had one ride left in me and a wife calling about dinner, which in my house was never about the food. She had until sunset to get everything she owned out of one house and into another, and the only truck she could find was my Prius. By dark, a woman with a cigarette asked how long the two of us had known each other. A few years, I said. I was counting in hours.
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August 27, 2026
Fifteen Minutes for Three Seconds
An old woman would not let me buckle her seatbelt. It would be an easy tale to tell about stubbornness, and that tale would be wrong. The whole thing turns on four words she said near the end, about a jacket, when she finally let herself be wrong about something that cost her nothing.
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July 25, 2026
Snail On Like a Boss
You can repossess a Mercedes. Nobody has ever repossessed a road. Two Roma, a hundred and ten years apart, each offered everything and each wanting only one thing. A tale about a horse thief, a Beverly Hills dream car, a leather jacket, and a man who sang the morning after losing it all.
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July 17, 2026
Everyone Sang But the Singer
A song my father wrote that everyone believes is traditional, centuries old, nobody's. Only the last part is true. A tale about a wedding, a corner, and who a song (or anything made) really belongs to.2 turns
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July 15, 2026
I Remember My Ex from 1986, But Not My Wife Today
A phone left on my back-seat floor, a man pacing a train platform, and a question you can answer in one word. No looking.
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July 14, 2026
The Boy Who Wrote Too Well
A student, a detector, an accusation that cost nothing to make, and the one person who looked up.
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July 8, 2026
7,353 Miles Without Leaving the Room
My grandfather carried me across an ocean to watch Argentina win the World Cup. And we never left the living room.5 turns
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July 4, 2026
What Happened to Your Neighbor?
Two kinds of riders, one 4th of July, and a question I couldn't shake about the neighbor.