Sublime

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water—it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream. I was on the bottom bunk again, listening to his slumber verses. The flap of our childhood letter box opened. Opening the door to the spray of sea. “You ask me if I’m using heroin, man?” He w

For the father-and-son duo that had endured so much, the race was a way of declaring to the world and perhaps to themselves that they would not let one little tumor stop them from continuing with their lives, from celebrating life itself.

“Years ago. But not since I left Riviera Beach. My dad and I went fishing for catfish on the lake a few times, but we only went into the town a couple of times. There’s nothing much there, or there wasn’t ten years ago. It’s just an elbow bend on the highway north. I wouldn’t think the town could support a software store, even if Waggoner rents out

The ultimate way you and I get lucky is if you have some success early in life, you get to find out early it doesn’t mean anything. DAVID FOSTER WALLACE

Growing up in the armpit of pre-internet Florida surrounded by swamps and orange groves, opportunities for life looked pretty uninspiring to say the least. As a kid finishing up the eleventh grade, I had very little sense of what life could be like after school. I imagined that, like so many of the grownups I knew, my high school days were probably