Robert Koehler | The Sun Magazine

Robert Koehler

Robert Koehler is a longtime Chicago journalist who has won numerous awards for his reporting. He is currently pursuing an M.F.A. at Columbia College in Chicago and working on a novel about growing up in the fifties.

— From December 1991
Fiction

A Child’s Christmas On State Street

Somehow the knowledge of his identity passed through to me in the moment I stood there locked to him. It passed through his knuckles and into my skin. It burned out at me through his eyes.

December 1991
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