A new story in The Sunday Morning Transport!

My story "Lesser Demons of the North Shore" is up over at The Sunday Morning Transport! I love this publication: you get one story every Sunday if you subscribe—-so four stories total—-or one free story a month if you go with the unpaid option. You have to pay for “Lesser Demons”!

Or you can use this link for a free 60-day subscription! You should 100% subscribe to The Sunday Morning Transport though—-it’s got a heck of an astounding archive already, a new story every Sunday (though only one* so far involving hamsters and demons and Chicago’s north shore).

*this one. My story.

First paragraph:

Here’s the story that should have served as a warning: Four years before we moved to the suburbs, my wife, Clemencia, worked at an after-school nonprofit in Bucktown, and one of the volunteers she supervised, Staci, drove from Winnetka to help out. Our commute was much easier than Staci’s, just a hop on the El from our Pilsen apartment. Clemencia said she didn’t really know Winnetka, didn’t really know about the North Shore. Staci said she hadn’t really known about it either. She’d married into the suburbs. Staci had been an actor. She worked at the Goodman and Steppenwolf and kept at it after she’d met her lawyer boyfriend and moved. Don’t move, Staci told her. You’ll think, Oh, it’s Chicago with a yard, but it is not Chicago with a yard. The North Shore isn’t Chicago. She said, in our neighborhood there’s this woman, she’s in her sixties, she has the blowout, the fur coat—the whole North Shore thing.

The rest is over here.