Search 50 years of archives

Independent, Reader-Supported Publishing

Current Issue
November 2024
The Sun InterviewBy Dash LewisPast Futuresbilly woods on the Cycles and Patterns of Human History
It just takes the right person, at the right time, to light the right spark and make what previously would have seemed impossible the law of the land. When I was a child, Somalia had a government. They might not have one again for the rest of my life.
Readers WriteBy Our ReadersTiming
A broken clock, a chance encounter, a long-distance relationship
In This Issue
Archives
October 2024
September 2024
August 2024
July 2024
June 2024
May 2024
Browse 50 years of Archives

Search
Renew Subscribe
Personal. Political.
Provocative. Ad-free.
Subscribe and Save up to 45%
Renew your subscription
Give the gift of the Sun
SUBSCRIBE
Give the gift of the Sun

Independent, Reader-
Supported Publishing

Subscribe and Save up to 45%

Renew your subscription SUBSCRIBE

Give the gift of the Sun

Search 50 years of archives

Len Messineo Jr.

Len Messineo Jr.’s work has appeared in Rosebud, Shenandoah, and Midwest Quarterly. He lives in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Fiction

So Familiar And Yet So Strange

First, there was the customer ahead of Simon in line disputing the price of a jumbo jar of sliced jalapeños. Then the senior who was low on cash and tried to pay on a credit card, invalidated three times.

December 1995

What Do You Think?

Has something we published moved you? Fired you up? Did we miss the mark? We’d love to hear about it.

SEND US A LETTER