“He’d come to appreciate the sounds she made, a steady grumble of snores that lessened whenever she turned on her side. The things she said were invariably hostile: ‘Who the hell is Becky?’ ‘Don’t fucking look at me!’ ‘Why didn’t you answer the phone?'” By Mike Heppner
Mike Heppner
About Mike Heppner
Mike Heppner is the author of two novels, The Egg Code and Pike's Folly, a novella, Nada, and two collections of short fiction, The Man Talking Project and This Can Be Easy or Hard. His writing has appeared in Poets & Writers, The New Guard, Golden Handcuffs Review, Nerve, and Esquire Online. A novel will be published by Thought Catalog later in 2014. He lives in the Boston area.