January 2012
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Excerpt from a novel in progess..."A Pursuit of...
“You’re breathtaking.” That’s what he said the first time I ever met him.
He wasn’t talking to me. He was saying it to the girl I was with. She wasn’t my girlfriend, so it was alright I guess. But how could he have known that? He had never met her either.
Although, looking back, I imagine he did know. He had a way with these types of things—knowing...
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By: Sam Hayes
On those hot summer days in upstate New York his dreams sat the heaviest. On long walks through shadeless fields from porch to creek, they took cover under his sweaty cap, endlessly bouncing between skull walls, clouding his mind with the densest of fogs.
Jay would not deviate from dreams except to wonder how he had not already become famous. He didn’t expect to be a...