Joe Baumann is the author of four collections of short fiction, most
recently Where Can I Take You When There’s Nowhere to Go, from BOA
Editions, and the novels I Know You’re Out There Somewhere and Lake, Drive. His fiction and essays have appeared in Third Coast, Passages North,
Phantom Drift, and many others. He possesses a PhD in English from the
University of Louisiana-Lafayette. He was a 2019 Lambda Literary Fellow in
Fiction. He can be reached at joebaumann.wordpress.com.
The sound of the front door opening and closing yanks them both from sleep and they are out of the bed, pulling on the sweatpants and jeans pooled on the floor, faster than their bodies can wake. They are the kind of men who don’t keep up with tasks of simple cleanliness, even now, in […]