Nicholas Maistros

Stories and essays by Nicholas Maistros have appeared in Witness, The Baltimore Review, The Literary Review, Sycamore Review, Nimrod, Sequestrum, Washington Square Review, Colorado Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, Bellingham Review, Cagibi, and Longleaf Review. Nicholas has worked in Broadway merchandising, nonprofit finance, filmmaking, and food service. He lives with his partner in Dayton, Ohio.

Spine of Empire

Three days after the avalanche, Onderdonk arrived in his private car. “There she is,” Roscoe said, having let go his end of a plank, smiling a dirty, squinted smile. “Miss Eva, and ain’t she a bee-yute.”
Emil dropped his end and a flurry of snow clouded up. When the snow cleared, he saw the car. It looked more like an oversized trolley from his Barbary Coast days than a railcar. . .

Issue 57, January 2022

Nicholas Maistros

Stories and essays by Nicholas Maistros have appeared in Witness, The Baltimore Review, The Literary Review, Sycamore Review, Nimrod, Sequestrum, Washington Square Review, Colorado Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, Bellingham Review, Cagibi, and Longleaf Review. Nicholas has worked in Broadway merchandising, nonprofit finance, filmmaking, and food service. He lives with his partner in Dayton, Ohio.

Spine of Empire

Three days after the avalanche, Onderdonk arrived in his private car. “There she is,” Roscoe said, having let go his end of a plank, smiling a dirty, squinted smile. “Miss Eva, and ain’t she a bee-yute.”
Emil dropped his end and a flurry of snow clouded up. When the snow cleared, he saw the car. It looked more like an oversized trolley from his Barbary Coast days than a railcar. . .

Issue 57, January 2022

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