Dave Byrne, a freelance writer from Arlington, Virginia, died on Thanksgiving Day, 2015. In the final year and a half of his life, he published four stories with Boston Review and one with Commonweal.
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Dave Byrne, a freelance writer from Arlington, Virginia, died on Thanksgiving Day, 2015. In the final year and a half of his life, he published four stories with Boston Review and one with Commonweal.
More birds appear. Bending against the cold, I watch, name, and name again.
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