Two men run through the woods. A bear is on the loose, a mother. And they heard rustling in the trees.
They make it back to their car, but Reed saw something Eric didn’t. A man in a parked truck who watched them run out of the trees, hand in hand. The man pointed his finger at them like a gun and fired, twice.
This trip may not save their relationship.
InSweet & Low, Nick White’s short-story collection, the South presses down and heteromasculinity presses down and history presses down and shoulders crumple like paper or they don’t.
A young man approaches a widow in an airport, then falls to the floor. Their stories are bound together, even before she finds his insulin pump and sugar pills and she stays with him. She doesn’t know what her bucktoothed husband was doing with this young man before he died, and she doesn't know the young man at her feet has been listening to her podcast.
An old man, pinned under his upturned riding mower, faces off with a nearby snake. In his life he has been victim and perpetrator, a cycle of violence that could end on this day under the warm Southern sun but probably won’t. PLEASE READ
Sweet & Low by Nick White, from Blue Rider Press
