By Jesse Hilson
On Saturday morning, before lunch at the food court at the local mall, before hitting the Shoe Dept and catching the 1:40 showing of Avatar 4, is a perfect time to stop off at QuikCuts and get a trim. The hairdressers all have certificates from beauty school and love to chat with customers. They make you feel right at home.
Jesse Hilson is a writer and artist living in the Catskills in New York State. His work has appeared in Hobart, X-R-A-Y, Apocalypse Confidential, Scaffold, Farewell Transmission, Excuse Me Mag, Expat, Misery Tourism, and other venues. He has written two novels, Blood Trip and The Tattletales; one story collection, The Calendar Factory; and a poetry collection, Handcuffing the Venus De Milo. He can be reached on Instagram at @platelet60 and he runs a Substack newsletter called Chlorophyll & Hemoglobin.