prose volume 3 | The Western Border

Prose

longing / Lauren Workman

Editors' Choice Prose:Vertigo

Sara Güven

"I know it’s ridiculous for a person to be jealous of a movie, but if I were, it would hands-down be Vertigo. Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 masterpiece. That one. I think it’s a perfectly fine movie, but when you see your husband watching it every single night for years — I’m not being sarcastic, I mean years — you start to get a little envious."

nighttime apparitions / Chloe Hendrick

The Bartender

Diego Paz Abate

"'Yeah, I’ve heard all of it,' said good Mr. Samuels, as he took another sip from his third Greyhound. 'I’m telling you, these kids are somethin’. Last week, my grandson started hollerin’ about how he would never get anywhere in life if he stayed here.'"

Dinner / Lauren Workman

Souvenir City

Grace Lazarre

"Tourist trap beach towns always have a certain type of charm. Without fail, there will one of those oddly shaped souvenir shops where you’re forced to enter between an octopus’s legs or through a shark’s mouth."

m & s / Nicole Villavicencio-Garduño

The Drawer

Sara Stone

"'What’s going to happen now?' I ask
'I don’t know what you’re talking about,' the other girl says
'What are we doing?'"

Showgirl / Elana Morchower