...Jan English Leary © 2006 the minnesota review 2006 Jan English Leary Frequent Losers Eric had warned Greta not to take the Metro through Chatelet. He reminded her that pickpockets stream in from the housing projects outside Paris and converge on that most-traveled station, fanning...

... with calculated strategy. I knew about half of the students playing. Daniel Bartock at table six was playing Greta from my math class. Richard Voss had taken a table and beaten his last three opponents. And at table one in front of me, a yellow- haired boy was winning another match. His...