I Read Stories: Loss by Josh Denlow in The Rumpus

 

Loss by Josh Denslow in The Rumpus

When our narrator was younger he was an actor, and he got married and had a daughter. But his career never took off. He’s something of a disappointment. He’s a good dad though, and he has divorce papers he hasn’t done anything with.

Our narrator’s daughter has a notebook and she’s writing a story about a chupacabra. And there’s a cat they’re feeding, it only eats meat.

A story about failure and family, about magic and disaster.

Read This: A fabulist fiction, manifesting who you are and the wreck of a family life
Don’t Read This: The relationship between chupacabra and failure is inexplicable