by Jon Conley…

Watercooler talk, Mitz was saying that she went to the dentist yesterday and that he was treating her as gingerly as possible because he knew what had happened. What had happened? We too wanted to know. He was a drunk—or maybe that was Joni’s story. I had just read a Lucia Berlin story, I told them.

Read the whole tooth-pulling story as published in Bodega Magazine…

Jon Conley is a writer and musician from Cleveland. His work can be found at places like Hobart, Bending Genres, and Hello Horror. Find him online @beachstav.