In this winner of the Press 53 Award for Short Fiction, "here" is the mythical tanker ship Katingo and New York’s subway and Cuba, where roosters duel like gods and breezes "blow at the same speed, with the same delicate and diffused intensity, as a human breath." Choundas' characters stay with us long after we finish reading. They are the faces of old friends, full of "surprises, disconnections, the rhythm of the world flinging itself successively into us-we who pretended we had it mastered."