One night a year in early July, the men and boys in swimsuits squat at the pool’s ledge to await two lifeguards’ whistles. The chlorine is all they smell, the burbling water is all they hear and—blindfolded—they see only black.… more
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A Joke from Penury
FICTION by Paul Kavanagh“We had been to maybe four of their parties, but this was the last, something like the fifth. It could have been the thousandth… more
