A short story about fandom, work, and the people who do not care about your bracket. In “I Hate Duke,” Greg Luti follows a passionate St. John’s basketball fan as March Madness collides with the tutoring center, coworker small talk, and a game night that matters more than it should. The day of schedule changes and constant messages from parents was done for, and whatever else was to be done would be completed later, by a more energetic version of myself. I picked up my bag an

A historical short story set during the attack on Fort McHenry. In “Land of the Free,” Greg Luti follows Francis Scott Key as negotiations, bombardment, and the desperate effort to keep the flag flying collide in 1814. Francis Scott Key, an American lawyer, had received news of the very men that he had just gotten to be released from the shackles on a British warship are to be for nothing. The British are to bomb Fort McHenry and start a war with the land that Key called his