Tracer/Frederick Barthelme/1985



9/??/2010

We drove for forty minutes to a town called Lullaby that had one street that was about half-and-half abandoned and not-quite-abandoned buildings -- a drug store, a gas station with yellow globes on the pumps -- then we ran into a beach and the road swerved along the water. In a couple of minutes things opened up and that was it -- buildings on one side of the road, Gulf on the other. On the beach side there were a couple of jetties and a restaurant with a neon bird for a sign./pg 8