Asymmetry

by Lisa Halliday

the pocket of her purse. Then they watched Top Hat, with

with a surgeon first thing

stripping for her doctor—or her tailor. Jordy was, so far as older or less desirable customers were concerned, an inanimate fixture who adjusted the clothes he sold to their bare or relatively bare bodies like an emotionless automaton . . .”) A souvenir program from the 33rd Annual Allegheny County Fair, featuring The Doodletown Pipers, Arthur Godfrey

Maddie entertained them in the apartment of an old high school friend who lived over on York. We left our landlord’s name on the mailbox,

and left it on the floor