• Paul Luikart
• is a writer based in
• Chicago, IL.
• His work has been featured in
• the Chicago Quarterly Review,
• Boston Literary Magazine,
• and on NPR's Three-Minute Fiction.
• He studied fiction writing at
• the University of Chicago's Writers Studio
• and works in a homeless shelter.
• This is some of his work.
• “Hunny was five years younger than me and probably all the rest of the Dragons.”
• “I'm in Maurice's room, just watching TV and hanging out.”
• “Two homeless men sat in an alley hugging their knees.”
• “Up goes the ball at the crack of the bat and it lingers, just for a second, against the cloudless sky.”
• “There are the lawn bowlers, drunk and shouting at one another in a different language, a language full of pitched staccatos and the punctuation of wild gestures.”
• “Seven years ago, I killed a man and cut him up and buried him way out in the White Tanks Mountains.”
• “One sweltering afternoon, a boy, still wringing wet, walked into Byler's bar and announced, ‘I sunk Danny's row boat.’”
• “Three weeks home from rehab and I'm sitting at The Busker Coffee and Tea House with Will and Danny and Will is jabbering on and on about his life as a stand up comedian.”
• “You and Mark, your little boy from your first marriage, stand together on the bank of the Arkansas.”
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