April 2009 Issue [Fiction] The blade Download PDF Adjust Share by David Means, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF More from David Means The Big Quit A departure yard in Chicago (detail), December 1942, by Jack Delano. Courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Leave the two men stranded along the railroad tracks outside Chicago,… Stopping Distance grief and time Grief takes as long as it wants, in various formations, and doesn’t follow rules the way we’d like to think it does. And for God’s sake, it… The Red Dot That night at the window, looking out at the street full of snow, big flakes falling through the streetlight, I listened to what Anna was saying. She was speaking of… Adjust Share