HISTORICAL FICTION Short Story: Call and Response, by Lori Crispo

Performed by Val Cole

LITERARY FICTION Short Story: When We Were Boys, by Joseph Michael Cerra

SHORT STORY READINGS • 5m 13s

Joseph Michael Cerra "When We Were Boys"
Literary Fiction, 788 Words

A group of first-generation Italian-American boys spend their endless Pennsylvania summers playing baseball by day and listening to distant radio broadcasts by night, their games infused with imagination, hero worship, and communal joy. Only later do they understand the quiet weight of their father’s silence and his work-worn hands, realizing how adulthood transforms the timeless freedom of childhood.

Voice Over by Val Cole