account_circle by Kevin McIlvoy
Kevin McIlvoy edits manuscripts and mentors writers through his website (mcthebookmechanic.com). His most recent book, The Complete History of New Mexico and Other Stories was published by Graywolf Press, which will bring out the e-book version in 2013; his novels, Hyssop (TriQuarterly Books) and Little Peg (Atheneum), have recently been published as e-books by Untreed Books. "19th & Minnesota" appears in his new collection, 57 Octaves Below Middle C.

Macro-Fiction

19th & Minnesota

Issue No. 183 ~ August, 2012

The grandfather had been told by his son there was a park within walking distance. Passing from not-q to not-p on the ultimate, changeless pavement, losing words and judgment in stillness and in movement, what he had taken in were the sounds park, wind, walking, ants.