Author

Christopher Owen

Christopher Owen lives in Texas with his wife and two cats. His writing has appeared in Perspectives and The Meteor, and for many years he wrote a column about beer for Brewing News Magazine.

The Thinning

Becky was in her kitchen, mixing up a batch of love potion, when the electric people knocked at her door. For weeks they had been working in her neighborhood, the engines of their trucks roaring and sputtering, brakes squeaking, voices of the men shouting away the early morning…