Eric Pahre is a writer from Illinois. He completed his MFA at the University of South Carolina and now lives in Chicago, where he is a Ph.D. student in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
It is not an air raid. Above the city’s steepled church-tops the two planes break from the clouds. Sunlit rain begins to trickle down, and then the smell from wet city streets. The clock tower strikes a warning....