I double-fist Coors on the porch. Listen through the Ponderosas for a truck sputtering, a horn. Purple shadows fall. A truck rolls by. The driver might offer a greeting. An invitation. Small talk. But when you live at the end of a road, it always turns around. Never looks back.

Yash Seyedbagheri is a graduate of Colorado State University’s MFA fiction program. His stories, “Soon,” “How To Be A Good Episcopalian,” and “Tales From A Communion Line,” have been nominated for Pushcarts. Yash’s work has been published in The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Write City Magazine, and Ariel Chart, among others.