Tag: diner

• Burning the Tracks

  

  A red glow washed over the amorphous designs on the table. Thin, bent tubes housing neon bordered the metallic siding. She sat in the hollow space carved out by the fish tank wall wrapping behind their customary booth. He hadn’t answered her question, the question she had asked him her to pose. She knew he…

  Dan Metzger

  July 14, 2017

  Fiction, Scene, Short Story

  CD, coffee, companionship, creative writing, diner, Fiction, fondness, friendship, goodbye, love, mixtape, music, parting, past, playlist, relationship, sentiment, time

• Consonants and Vowels and Eggs

  

  This guy’s been here almost every day this month. He always ends up sitting in the same stool, but only after sitting down at table 14, looking up and down the bar, walking back toward the door to pick up a Globe and scan the headlines. Then he pulls out the crossword and studies the…

  Dan Metzger

  April 25, 2015

  Fiction, Scene

  Boston, characters, crossword, diner, eggs, job, observance, old man, omlete, restaurant, scene, tips, waitress, work