Ted McLoof teaches fiction at the University of Arizona and is a staff writer at Rookerville. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Minnesota Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Gertrude, Monkeybicycle, Sonora Review, Hobart, DIAGRAM, The Associative Press, and elsewhere. He has recently been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and a Best of the Net Award. He is working on his first novel.
Summer 2014
Anhedonia
So we’re on our way to the restaurant when the kid turns to me and she goes, Dad, who is this lady? Just like that she says it, Who is this lady, eight years old and already she sounds like a snotty teenager, which she just so clearly gets from her mother that it isn’t even worth going into.