"Cities," winner of an honorable mention in the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition, reminisces about a lifetime spent living in and visiting great cities around the globe. In "Evidence," a middle-aged actor remembers two former girlfriends, opposites in every way, who presumably still own photographs of him naked. "The Grand Tour" follows a small-time nineteen seventies crooner and his disparate bandmates on a hilarious American road trip. In "Grounded on Garbage," the pilot of a commercial jetliner accidentally ...
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"Cities," winner of an honorable mention in the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition, reminisces about a lifetime spent living in and visiting great cities around the globe. In "Evidence," a middle-aged actor remembers two former girlfriends, opposites in every way, who presumably still own photographs of him naked. "The Grand Tour" follows a small-time nineteen seventies crooner and his disparate bandmates on a hilarious American road trip. In "Grounded on Garbage," the pilot of a commercial jetliner accidentally touches down at the wrong airport, built on a precarious landfill seven miles away from the right airport. "The Hijacking of the Dave Mandarine Band" examines what happens when a greedy nightclub owner and a dishonest musician cannot leave bandleading to the bandleader. In "Hope, for Now," a man remembers a lonely evening with a sweet young prostitute. "The Impresario" satirizes another arrogant club owner and his mistreatment of the musicians who keep his business open. "Jocelyn Davies" is a lovelorn singer whose sexual awakening dissolves a stalled relationship. "Karla in the Closet" follows a lesbian's high-school sweetheart through two stunning reunions that span four decades. In "Keeping Score," a brilliant young math student has an affair with her English professor and offers him a novel way to remember her and her predecessors. "La bataille des bandes" tours the world with a successful French Beatles tribute band that refuses to sing or speak English. In "Library Daydream," a novelist moonlighting as a library cataloger imagines things one might say to an uneducated employer. In "Madeira in Translation," a man reminisces about a beautiful young Brazilian he met on vacation and the communication they developed in the absence of words. "The Mansfield Effect" recalls a comic one-night stand with an over-endowed drama student. "Minton and Mistral" is a tragic love story about two conjoined twins. In "Nora in the Office," a man remembers the first time he made love with a colleague. "Old Vienna" is a nonfiction interlude in which the author pays tribute to his hometown. In "Out of Sequence," a telekinetic tourist wreaks havoc on Key West's technocratic music scene. "Perils of Paris" follows the misadventures of an accident-prone teenager. "Piano Trio" describes a noisy sex romp taking place upstairs in an old woman's guesthouse. In "Saved by the Guitar Solo," the jazz buyer of a large Baltimore record store considers rock songs whose most attractive feature is their guitar solo. "Scarred for Life" reveals the fixation of a young woman who as a little girl had witnessed a case of indecent exposure. In "The Sculpture Gardener," a Key West arts administrator turned call girl describes a sensual afternoon with her first client, a respected artist who had sat on her organization's board of directors. In "Second Thoughts," a young woman serving thirty years for killing her husband on their honeymoon discusses the crime with her new cellmate. In "The Siren of Salt Lake City," a musician remembers the most reckless one-nighter of his career. "Sybil and Biff" are two college students, one sexually dynamic and the other merely tantalizing. "The Teflon Hayseed" lampoons an illiterate county-government employee whose lack of credentials is no impediment to his career. "The Time Traveler of Naples" is a second nonfiction interlude, about an eccentric Italian Renaissance composer whose music, centuries ahead of its time, nearly redeems his having murdered his first wife. In "The Trinity of Regret," a playwright recalls the disappointments that set the course of his life. In "Watching His Language," a CIA analyst adopts a ridiculous method to stop swearing in the workplace. And "Women" recalls the lovers with whom a young man came of age, if not into maturity.
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