Watchlist Countdown, Day 14: “The Gift” by Mark Irwin

     He was about the size of a wooden match and floated--arms spread out--like a skydiver in a small jar his wife had given him, perhaps because they were childless and he was always traveling.

       from “The Gift” by Mark Irwin

Odd, funny, entrancing.  I can’t say much more than that about Mark Irwin’s contribution to the Watchlist anthology, a story about a dude named Mark whose wife gives him a tiny man floating in a jar of water for their 25th...