“Our Lot,” by David Saltzman (Fiction ’17)

David Saltzman‘s short story “Our Lot” recently appeared in Two Sisters. Read an excerpt bellow:

“The streets in this town are just filthy with memories, their tidal nostalgia pulling me gently past curbside racks of ironic t-shirts and artisanal food-cart ecologies, pop-up art installations warring for attention with painfully earnest street performers, gastropubs on every corner from Harris all the way down to the Brick-Walnut roundabout, where I light up one last cigarette before soldiering on up the hill toward College toward this unkempt gravel lot where once there’d been a church, and before that, another church, and before that another—now, there’s only a brick wall, but embedded in this wall are all the different materials from all the generations of churches, each silhouette a different color and each nestling into the last and all of it nested against a red-brick backdrop, watching over a lot nobody’s even parked in for years…”

Find the rest of “Our Lot” here: https://www.twosisterswriting.com/winners-1/2020/2/1/our-lot-by-david-saltzman