Jimmy Gleacher | The Sun Magazine

Jimmy Gleacher

Jimmy Gleacher is a student at the Naropa Institute and an assistant editor for Dead Metaphor Press. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

— From May 1998
Fiction

When He Had It On

The videotape began with a Japanese family standing in front of the Statue of Liberty. I’d never seen them before. There was a mother, a son, and a daughter. The father, I assumed, was behind the camera. They had on all the gear: Big Apple T-shirts, Yankees hats, Nikon necklaces.

May 1998
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