Philip Gallos

Phil Gallos has been a newspaper reporter and columnist, a researcher/writer in the historic preservation field, and has spent 32 years working in academic libraries (which is more interesting than it sounds). Most recently, his writing has been published in The Writing Disorder, STORGY Magazine, Dark Moon Lilith, Wisconsin Review, and in Defunkt Magazine, among others, and is forthcoming in Blueline and Sky Island Journal. He lives and writes in Saranac Lake, NY.

Barker and the Big Storm

When Billy Stang, four days on the road from upstate New York, forsook Interstate 80 for the two-lane at Ogallala and changed his trajectory from west to north, he was looking for failure. He found it twenty miles east of Alliance; but, since failure was his goal, he saw it as success.