Baby Please Don’t Go (Published in Liberty Magazine as “Love Song”)
“Was it he, or she, reaching out arms and trying to hold or to be held, and clasping nothing but empty air?” – Ovid, Metamorphoses
He saw a lot of strange things on tour. He’d seen a happy clown. He’d even seen a sad widow. Bobby Lipp looked out from the stage over the casino as the thunderous applause from six people sitting below him died down.
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Fame and obscurity, songs and silence, love and death: as Alec Mouhibian shows, opposites attract, and absolute opposites attract absolutely.
To my pleasant surprise, that line from the table-of-contents of the newly released September issue of Liberty Magazine describes my short story, “Love Song,” which appears inside. The story has no action-heroes and does not include the words “freedom” or “individual,” so I doubt any of the magazine’s libertarian readers will lay a finger on it. They can forego contamination by turning the pages with a gentle blow.
The story is not available online, but the mag can be found at many Borders and BNs nationwide. It also includes a cover article about South Park and libertarianism, editor Stephen Cox’s ever-refreshing Word Watch column, a review of Christopher Hitchens, and much more.
