Out of Town Guests
*This was originally submitted to Round 7 of the NPR Three Minute Fiction contest* It didn’t win.
They came in on a mid-afternoon train from Boston to Mystic, stowed away in the dark folds of Ginny’s unmentionables deep within her suitcase.…
Chez Depot
Malthus Prufrock, Chapter One, 1992
17 Relics return to the stage
thanks to peter huoppi and rick koster at theday.com…
Depot House (from the 4 Roosevelt zine “Chez Depot”)
The Depot was an answer when we most desperately needed it.
Mystic itself was going though an enormous change. The recession of the late 80’s/early 90’s was a new wrinkle in the fabric of American life. Mystic had always been a town where most kids were able to go to college, and then were expected to move away to more prosperous places.…