A man repairs a friendship. “Lines in Spring,” a short story now on Substack.
We had joked about who gets away with what and why, and those jokes turned serious but never vicious, and we hashed it out like the blood brothers we were, finding the good in each other—finding something more—while calling out the bad and looking at things different than what the news and politicians told us and wanted us to think and feel. “Just be nothing for each other but a bigger truth,” he used to say. “A bigger freedom.”
William Auten – “Lines in Spring”
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