David Landau is an alumnus of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop summer program. His story “Sweetheart” was shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award and is published in their 2024 Award Anthology. His piece “Eclipse” was a finalist for the Sunspot Literary Journal’s Rigel Short Story Contest. While another story made the New Writing Prize longlist from Wasafiri, the UK’s leading magazine for international contemporary writing. Other works can be read in The Cossack Review, 580 Split, and Write City Magazine.
(Circa 1953) It’s going on full dark when the car turns off the highway into the motel auto court. A ’48 Studebaker Commander careening through one last pothole, running roughshod since Fresno, on fumes since Old Town Calabasas. But it made it. They made it. Just past the red “VACANCY” sign, the car slows then […]