Lights

"We decided to snuff out all of the Christmas lights, house by house. We couldn't imagine why no one had thought of it during our four years of high school. We had gotten baseball bats slick with pumpkin flesh, set bottle rockets sputtering into the branches of oak trees, but not until now had we thought to steal my father’s wire cutters and pile into Daniel’s car like dogs in a kennel, sweaty and flushed in our wool coats."

"Lights" was published in The Southern Review. It's about the fleeting nature of friendship and an inflatable snowman. To read the full story, you can purchase the issue on their site. The Southern Review was also kind enough to interview me about the story.