In this poignant, funny, chapbook of short fiction and two essays, Jason M. Thornberry takes on unsavory landlords, dental extractions, benevolent crows, cigar-chomping land developers, and poets who brings their broken poems to a mechanic. In the final story—The Finish Line—an old man in a corduroy hat with ear flaps takes one last ride into screeching morning traffic.

It may seem like a lot of ground to cover, but this varied and deft collection is bound together with humor, grace, and a healthy dose of the absurd.

Jason M. Thornberry is a disabled writer whose work appears in the Los Angeles Review of Books, World Literature Today, Maryland Literary Review, JMWW, Letters Journal, North Dakota Quarterly, South Florida Poetry Journal, and many others. He was nominated in 2023 and 2024 for Best of the Net.