Watchlist Countdown, Day 2: “Nighttime of the City” by Robert Coover

She drifts through the bleak nighttime of the city like an image loosely astir in a sleeping head, disturbing its rest, destined for the violent surreality of dreams.
       from “Nighttime of the City” by Robert Coover

This short story which opens Watchlist is Grade A noir from one of our most interesting writers of short fiction.  Fans of Robert Coover ( Pricksongs & Descants: Fictions , The Origin of the Brunists , etc.) will find much to love here; those new t...