A short story set in a changing Chicago neighborhood, where a local legend about a girl in the ice house overlaps with the unruly lives of young people. Mythic images bring out urban change and the fading sense of community.

A legend of ice turns an ordinary street corner into something almost mythic.

A short story in which dialogue and distance between a young man and woman reveal both intimacy and misalignment.

In the space behind an ordinary conversation, the shape of the relationship slowly emerges.