"Throgs Neck" by Eugene A. Melino

Content Warning: Racism, Racial Slurs, Violence

Election morning 2016, Johnny is served divorce papers. Now he must fast track his secret plan to win back his estranged wife and get from under the thumb of his Trumpist father, a wily old fox with shadowy connections to the mob. Like his election hopes, Johnny’s plans explode in his face on Inauguration Day.

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Eugene Melino was born in the Bronx and has lived in New York City all his life. Both places figure prominently in his work. His poems have appeared in Poeming Pigeon, Contemporary Ghazals, Eastern Structures, Blue Lake Review, Burningword Literary Journal and Poetry in Form (Medium). He attended the Writers Studio, an independent creative writing school founded by the Pulitzer Prize winning poet Philip Schultz. In his final two years, he was a member of Phil’s master class. He earned his graduate and undergraduate degrees at New York University, where he majored in English education and also studied journalism, filmmaking and art history. For many years, he worked as a corporate writer. These days, he devotes his writing efforts entirely to poetry, essays and plays.

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