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.
We shook hands on the curb. He hadn’t zipped up his coat and I could see the wet black mark on his shirt where he’d spilled a drink on himself. In the dark it looked like blood from a wound, as if someone had stabbed him in the chest. And wasn’t that, after all, essentially what I had done?
Excerpt from Chapter 5
