A New Story in The Sunday Morning Transport!

Hi! I wrote a short story that is very much its own thing and a love letter to (1) John Cheever’s “The Enormous Radio,” (2) NPR, and (3) Chicago. Here’s the first line, with the rest over at The Sunday Morning Transport:

The husband took a pocket radio to bed every night because he fell asleep much earlier than his wife and he woke up much earlier, often at five a.m. but earlier sometimes, and sometimes he didn’t sleep much at all. But—pre-radio—if he got out of bed he invariably woke her up, and if he stayed in bed he fidgeted and woke her up in a gradual, more unintentionally insidious and crazy-making way, so he found this solution, a yellow Sangean, defiantly analog, that he would turn on, earbud in one ear, so he could listen to whatever tragedies had befallen the world in his half-sleep.