This morning’s run to the ATM was harrowing. I dipped into savings! Seventh time this month. I tell Alicia all this in the middle of my second mojito.
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Christopher Gonzalez is the author of I’m Not Hungry but I Could Eat (SFWP, 2021). He was named a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Fiction in 2021, and his writing can be found in Poets & Writers, the Nation, Best Microfictions, and Best Small Fictions—as well as a number of defunct journals like Astra and Catapult—among others. He currently works in book publishing, serves as a fiction editor for Barrelhouse magazine, and lives in Brooklyn, NY. You can find him most places online @livesinpages.