Seth Gleckman
Seth Gleckman is currently a high school English teacher in Sonoma County, California. His fiction has previously been published in The South Carolina Review, Permafrost, Gulf Stream, and more. He also a story forthcoming in The Penn Review.
Work by this author
The Pro
Dad was a classically trained toilet paper tosser. A disciple of Auburn University, where fans celebrated home football victories by plastering the college’s trees in white tissue. He used to say that over there in east Alabama, everyone was a pro like him, that even the toddlers and the elderly rocketed rolls into the highest leaves, that it must have been some kind of anomalous athletic gift akin to the flexibility of Russian gymnasts or the jaw muscle stamina of hotdog eating contest winners—in the case of Auburn’s toilet paper lofters, some genetic advantage in the wrist tendons maybe, or perhaps the forearm.
