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...