Author Archives: dsamarov

Across the street a house was demolished and a new one has gone up within a couple months. It’s an astonishing pace compared to the gut rehab of the upper stories of the one I live in. That took a year and a half. The sounds of construction are relentless, whether above my head orContinue reading “Lock Street”

The text comes in as I’m driving through Ohio back to Chicago. It’s an offer of a job at my favorite bar. I’d thought I was done with all that almost two years back when I quit the Skylark. True, I’ve done the occasional fill-in shift, but bartending every week felt like it was inContinue reading “Experienced Ice”

I didn’t mean to publish another book this way, but here it is. A couple hours after I finish writing this, I’ll get on my bike and ride three-quarters of a mile south to Bubbly Creek Industries, home of Nero Ink. I will look at a final proof of the thing I made, then they’llContinue reading “to whom it may concern”