David K. Gibson has been a magazine editor, a travel writer, and a sensitive male advice columnist for the Harlequin Romance web channel. His work has appeared in Wigleaf, Invisible City, Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and Harper Collins’ May Contain Nuts: A Very Loose Canon of American Humor, and is upcoming in Best Small Fictions 2022. He lives in Orlando with his wife and child and cats and coffee, and can be found virtually at davidkgibson.com and @davidkgibson.
And lo, not fifteen minutes after the ship had cast off its ropes, a giant Phoenician dropped his last denarius into a brass bucket and Intracticus retired to the bar, where he proceeded to become loaded, even as unto the dice.