He asked, “What kind of music do you like?”

She thought, Well, there’s Duke, Dizzy, and Miles.  Can’t forget Errol and Oscar. Bop, Modern, and Cool. Maybe I should just say:

“Jazz.”

He said, “I like jazz too. I actually just got a new Kenny G. CD.”

She said, “Oh.”

Robert Iulo’s work has been published or is forthcoming in Epiphany, Culinate, Deep South, Museum of Americana, Story Teller, Gastronomica and others. He’s had a special feature published in The Mississippi Sun Herald about his volunteer work on the Mississippi Coast after Katrina.