Constance Squires

Constance Squires is the author of the novel Along the Watchtower, which received the Oklamahoma Book Award for fiction in 2012. A finalist for the 2014 Disquiet Literary Prize, she has also received several Pushcart Prize nominations. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, This Land, Bayou, New Delta Review and other magazines. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, The Village Voice, Largehearrt Bay and on the NPR program "Snap Judgment."

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Dopamine Agonistes

Constance Squires  | 
Issue 64.1 Fall 2015

Lorne Taggart stood at his front door waiting for the mail. He watched the surface of his coffee vibrate with his hands, concentric circles rippling out from the center of the cup, then another vibration, this one in his front …