Chelsey Johnson's stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Avery Anthology, and Selected Shorts. She teaches creative writing at Oberlin College and is working on a novel.
I never thought I’d shoot a gun. But here I was, standing at the glass counter, looking down at an array of gleaming pistols laid out like deadly jewelry.
"I think we're always a little bit in hell. Like how hot New York is in the summer. Or an intense, wonderful, hard, hard relationship could be hell, and you think, I will stay here forever, because I love you."