A college dropout smashes his phone, pockets forty-three dollars and a swollen eye, and boards a Greyhound east.
Read about OFFLINE →In a sunlit record shop on Congress, a man who doesn't care for music, and keeps his walls and his past deliberately bare, falls for the girl behind the counter, who christens him Casey Jones and sends him home with a stranger's posters.
Read the story →In a floodlit arena and the neon city beyond it, a battered rider is fed, paid, and passed hand to hand through a world of gold-toothed handlers, steered like a machine by people who own more of him than he does.
In a warehouse gym by the Sumida train tracks, a runaway kid and a trainer who traded his own dream build something out of grit alone: the fighter who never leaves the ring first.
In a desert motel off the interstate, an unseen watcher narrates the drifters below through a crack in the blinds. What he types on the room's typewriter starts coming true.
In a leaning cabin off Doss Creek Road, a ruined man drinks alone, and the bright Hill Country boyhood that broke him, told through a melting scoop of ice cream.
Set in The Hill CountryA self-destructive man spirals through drunken nights and wreckage until a rock-bottom thirtieth birthday forces him to face the ex he can't forget, and the life he's been avoiding.
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