Faculty Publications & Research

Title

"Outbreak"

Document Type

Short Story

Publication Date

2016

Disciplines

Creative Writing | Fiction

Abstract

We’re all having dinner when my friend Kris collapses. Tony had just broken some bad news to us:

“Saw some Hendersons yesterday,” he says, working on an apple. “A whole mess of them.” Tony has these beautiful, sincere brown eyes, and he wields them like a superpower. We’re all about 90% sure he was a used car salesman before. He knows just how to use them to get an effect. Now the effect on the group is anxiety. All eyes turn to Phil.

—Exerpt

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SQ Mag, No. 26 (2016)

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