A Thief’s Wages

Authors

  • Marty Correia Author

Keywords:

poverty, crime and punishment, fatherhood, marriage, working-class life, grief

Abstract

In this short story, a struggling father awaiting the consequences of a botched bank robbery spends a tense evening at home with his angry wife and two young children.

Author Biography

  • Marty Correia

    Marty Correia is a poet and fiction writer whose work has appeared in FUSE, Punk Soul Poet, Lady Business and Fiction Fix. A graduate of New York University’s M.F.A. program in Creative Writing, Marty is currently at work on her first novel, The Art of Money Getting. The tale follows four generations of arsonists and other fiery characters in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and it spans from the days of P.T. Barnum to 1986, the year the space shuttle Challenger explodes. Marty has lived in New York City’s East Village with conceptual artist Kate Conroy for almost twenty years.

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Published

2015-09-30

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2015): Maestro

Section

Creative Works

How to Cite

Correia, Marty. “A Thief’s Wages”. The Mailer Review, vol. 9, no. 1, Sept. 2015, pp. 364–366, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/540.