He has always been barrel-chested. It’s become clear that he’s done all he can to stay fit. But things simply aren’t going to end well for his pectorals.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Andrew R. Touhy, a recipient of the San Francisco Browning Society’s Dramatic Monologue Award and Fourteen Hills’ Bambi Holmes Fiction Prize, is also a nominee for inclusion in Best New American Voices. His work appears in Alaska Quarterly Review, New England Review, Conjunctions, New American Writing, The Collagist, New Orleans Review, Colorado Review, Eleven Eleven, and other literary journals. He teaches fiction at The Writing Salon and flash fiction workshops in Birdland, and lives in Oakland with his wife and child.