How To Be

Boystown, Chicago, Winter, Y2K.

Published in Midwestern Gothic Issue 19 (all creative nonfiction), Fall 2017. Out of print.

“Dan and I break from the girls. I buy us more drinks, which we take onto the dance floor and hold out at half arm’s length so as to not spill. We wrap our free arms around the others’ waists. Dan’s breath is sweet from the bourbon.”