Theodore McCombs
Theodore McCombs is a writer and lawyer, formerly of Wall Street, currently in Denver. He studied Literature and Mathematics at the University of California, San Diego, then law at UC Berkeley. His non-fiction and fiction have appeared in the Hastings Journal of Race & Poverty Law and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, among others. He is a member of the Lighthouse Writer’s Workshop and he tweets as @MrBruff. He is currently working on a first novel about the life and career of the SS's official Holy Grail hunter. Faked Deaths in My Family
(I) I cradled the dead snake’s slack, dark line, smashed into a double kink, and cried. Nana had found him squirming over the handle of the laundry room door, screamed, then slammed him into the jamb, breaking his neck—but since … Continue reading