The undying dream of Esperanto

I’d been in the Midwest a month. I had stepped off the Greyhound with clothing, toiletries, documents, and a cremation urn, which I kept my savings in. The locals considered my new town dead. At first...

Andy Bodinger is an American fiction writer and essayist. He earned his MFA from Oklahoma State University and is in his final year at Ohio University pursuing his PhD in Creative Writing.

I brought my girlfriend on a date to Art Hoe theatre to see an indie flick directed by and starring a rich girl I went to high school with. She, the rich girl, was known for her straight-A’s,…