Common Disagreements

by Christopher Merkner

Maybe it was age, or the memory of his youth, but he wanted better for the young men he’d seen one summer running up the concrete hill of his neighborhood. It wouldn’t be long until they were making a new life in Stockholm, hunting and building on the property he was raised on. Who knew people that would be wondering where all those high school football players had gone?
About the Author
Christopher Merkner is the author of the story collection The Rise & Fall of the Scandamerican Domestic (Coffee House 2014). His stories have been reprinted in the Best American Mystery Stories and the O. Henry Prize Stories anthologies, and some of his other work can be found in Black Warrior Review, Chicago Tribune's Printer's Row Journal, Cincinnati Review, CutBank, DIAGRAM, Five Points, Gettysburg Review, Gulf Coast, Fairy Tale Review, Hotel Amerika, Midwestern Gothic, and Subtropics. He's currently an assistant professor of English for West Chester University in Pennsylvania, and he is very happily living in Denver, CO with his wife and kids.

5 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 28, 2017

About the author

Assistant Professor of English at the University of Colorado Denver, Christopher Merkner is the author of THE RISE & FALL OF THE SCANDAMERICAN DOMESTIC: STORIES (CHP 2014).