Pitch

This is Truhlar’s fifth major collection of literary works, and includes 10 tantalizing fictions: “The Better Way,” “Stet,” “The Pitch,” “Skin Shoe, Long Pig,” “Assimulator,” “Earfull,” “The Desert of the Real Itself,” “Ebisu,” “Phoning the Past,” and “Fact Simile.”

Excerpt fromThe Pitch: "You look at your wristwatch, seeing yourself after the third martini not wanting to move, watching the sun separate itself from your consciousness, move into the idea of its breaking through the clouds."