Ethan Chatagnier's short stories have appeared in the Kenyon Review Online, Five Points, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Barrelhouse, among other journals, and are forthcoming in The New England Review and The Cincinnati Review. He lives, writes, and teaches in Fresno, California.Dr. Diaz at the Brink
Three Wednesdays back, Dr. Diaz—Nick—asked me—this was at the clubhouse after a late round of eighteen; Phil and Derrick had already deserted us—he asked me, “Father, can you take my confession. Here, I mean, without your closet thing?” I asked if he was baptized in the Catholic church. “No,” he said, “Episcopalian.”...
