An Old Friend, An Old Bar

J Dawson
6 min readJul 6, 2022
Photo by Stanislav Ivanitskiy on Unsplash

The Wandering Wendigo is a bar set just to the left of the historical town of Sunrise. One of many sprawling cities in the valley, growing faster than it comfortably can. Downtown was a collection of brick shops with front porches. One didn’t have to squint their eyes to spot remains of the old west. A living fossil in a world growing too large around it. The bar, like the town itself, was a little wild and a bit rough around the edges, not…

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J Dawson

Writes literary fiction with a speculative bent. A parent of teens. Accidental house flipper. Friend of cats and dogs. Kindness matters. ND Bi (she/they)