I was living in a studio under a brownstone, just what I always wanted, entertaining a lot of women. Aside from drinking six or seven Manhattans per night, there was little else to do.
The place had a good-sized main room. I would have preferred to keep it empty, but in a corner by one of the two windows a pile was building up with boxes from a former situation.
Dennis E. Bolen is a novelist, editor, teacher and journalist, first published in 1975 (Canadian Fiction Magazine). He holds a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Victoria (1977) and an MFA (Writing) from the University of British Columbia (1989), and taught introductory Creative Writing at UBC from 1995 to 1997.