by Jeff Fleischer
My short story, “Thinking About Dink” — which involves a musician doing exactly that, reflecting on the writer of “Dink’s Song” — is out today in The Bookends Review.
An excerpt:
Shane looked down at the familiar pattern of scratches on the floor, a lopsided snowflake etched by years of boot heels and chair legs. As he did every week, he found the sooty remnant of blue electrical tape that he’d always treated as center stage, or as a spot close enough to center that the emcee never corrected his placement.