I am in a narrow room, approximately ten feet by fifteen feet. Its walls are steel, and its floor is grey. It is absolutely clean but smells vaguely of sewage. It is lit with a penetrating floodlight that stretches into every identical corner and overpowers the eyelids. When it is dark, it is absolutely dark, […]
Joel Page
Joel Page is a public defender in Dallas, where he writes appeals for federal prisoners. His fiction has appeared in Word Machine Magazine, the Red Dirt Review, and the New Times. He is the fiction editor for the West Texas Literary Review.