Writing by Jen Susca

Read "Ignoring All Axioms: A Conversation with Ron Currie," published in  Breakwater Review ,  the online literary journal of UMass Boston,  here .

Read "Some LC," a short fiction piece, published in  Intermissions ,  an anthology curated and published by the University of Melbourne's Grattan Street Press,  here .

Read "Tracksuit Elegy," a short fiction piece, published in Drunk Monkeys ,  Volume 8, Issue 1, here .

  Read "The Ficus," a short fiction piece, published in Talon Review , Volume 2, Issue 6, here .  

THE PROPOSAL   Mere weeks after my intrepid travel companion, Kath, offhandedly mentioned that, after over two years in a global pandemic, she really never felt the need to go to New York City again, I was asking her to do just that. I had stumbled upon an article about stage superstitions that briefly mentioned a certain former Double O Seven had caught COVID while playing the titular character in a certain Shakespearean play. Within moments, I opened a new tab and searched for resale tickets. I hadn’t been to New York in over five years, but the chance to see Daniel Craig play MacBeth on Broadway was bizarrely enticing.   I proposed the idea to Kath and the stars aligned. She had an upcoming weeklong vacation. I had an unused Wellness Day at work. Neither of us were die hard Daniel Craig fans, but we both had seen all of his Bond films, loved a Broadway show, and – honestly – figured, why the hell not?   We had made several day trips to New York during middle school spring breaks t