"Kentbrook! Kentbrook! Kentbrook!", a deft new story by fourth-year student John Englehardt about the destinations we never quite reach, appears now in Monkeybicycle.
"When Helen stops the car under the sign for American Airlines and doesn’t get out to say goodbye, I consider launching into a tirade in which I list all her faults. Like how she’d be sexier without so many moral hang-ups, how she’s dependent on her officious parents—and so on. In this fantasy I end by saying, 'I want to marry you and all your fucking problems. I wish that was enough,' which is admittedly just something I heard in a movie."