Author

Tim Johnston

Tim Johnston has published in New England Review, Puerto del Sol and elsewhere. He is currently working on a novel set in Japan. [1993]

CONTRIBUTIONS

Fiction

Sep 01 1992

That One Particular Game

In the summer of 1974, my father rewarded me for graduating from sixth grade by giving me to my mother. He and his new girlfriend — a woman whose age could be derived, I’d determined, by substracting my age from my father’s — were bound for the Virgin Islands. When on the day of their departure I impetuously inquired, “Why Virgin Islands?” Linda giggled and said, “Honey, you got me!”