Stand Together, Fall Apart
The entire text of "Stand Together, Fall Apart," a literary fiction novel, was serialized here from June 25, 2011 through September 11, 2011.
For six weeks of Tuesdays we watched Hitchcock films at the Quad: Vertigo, Rear Window, Strangers on a Train, Dial M for Murder. Afterward, John and I argued and drank cheap Mexican beer in a two-table burrito shop on Waverly. I would beat my chest with praise for the films, claiming they cast a light on mankind’s seamier impulses. John picked at their flaws. “You think crime is just a great plot device,” he said. I shrugged and said, yeah, well, tell me what it’s like in real life then.
Excerpt from Chapter 3
