Jeff and I are pretending he’s a firefighter. Ex-members of an improv troupe, we know how to sell it. So when Jeff strides in wearing an electric-yellow domed helmet, smelling of char, ash on his cheeks like a priest’s thumb had slipped, I keep my cool. “Was there a big fire?” I ask. “Huge,” he […]
Nora Esme Wagner
Nora Esme Wagner is a senior at Wellesley College. She lives in San Francisco, California. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Smokelong, Wigleaf, JMWW, Milk Candy Review, Flash Frog, Vestal Review, and elsewhere. Her stories have been selected for Wigleaf’s Top 50. She is an assistant fiction editor at Pithead Chapel and the Co-Editor-in-Chief for The Wellesley Review.