Dan Lopez is the author of The Show House and Part the Hawser, Limn the Sea, a Lambda Literary Finalist for Debut Fiction. His work has most recently appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books, The Millions, Storychord, Time Out New York, The Nervous Breakdown and Lambda Literary. He lives in Los Angeles.
Tonight is certainly a night for a sallow, fidgety boy with a stutter, most likely blond. Someone translucent, like the clarity of winter in the City Beautiful...