Tag: bus

• Texting Harriet Greer

  Jordan Gregg moved in about a month before the end of the school year. Mom found the timing of The Gregg’s move the sort of odd that borders on downright scandalous, what with enrolling two kids at Glenville just weeks before summer break. I’d been at camp for half the summer and up at my…

  Dan Metzger

  August 28, 2015

  Fiction, Short Story

  adolescence, boy, bus, bus stop, class, creative writing, Fiction, game, girl, high school, phone, school, school bus, small town, smart phone, summer, teenager, texting

• Sunlight on the Number 9

  

  April brings out the sunglassed ladies who don their frames on an afternoon bus ride through South Boston. Yuppie chicks and their bug eyes and dark lenses hide vulnerable souls from interlocutors found on smart phone applications they meet over drinks. Polarized eyes aid the creation of plausible lies. Vanity is victorious. There in the front of…

  Dan Metzger

  April 23, 2015

  Fiction, Poetry

  age, Boston, bus, light, observer, passenger, poem, south boston, sun, sunglasses, teenager, vanity, youth