Matan Gold

Matan Gold is a writer from the San Fernando Valley, just outside of Los Angeles. His work has been featured or is forthcoming in Waxwing, Into the Void, Track//Four, Duende, and Funicular Magazine. He begrudgingly works at a grocery store.

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Brett invites me over after school to grind his rail, which is of little consequence to me, since I can barely ollie straight; but sometimes I can heelflip, which makes me believe in improvement and wards off the stomach-eating-reality that skateboarding, for me, cannot be sustained,