Paul Vega is a managing editor for Pacifica Literary Review and received his MFA from the University of Washington. His work appears or is forthcoming in The Rumpus, The Pinch, DIAGRAM, CutBank, The Collagist, NANO Fiction and elsewhere. Larry Fucking Walters
It starts like this: As teenagers at a Holiday Inn in Great Falls. Matt and I practice dives in the deep end of the pool. We run, we fight, we dive again. We plunge the other’s head underwater. And when Matt comes up gasping for air, pain shooting through his back, I say, “Fuck you,...
