What starts for Turner, a mall security guard, as a serious endeavor to solve the mystery of his friend's death is quickly... More > overshadowed by his bewildered love for Carla, a pretzel stand employee, who, wearied of job and life, chains herself to heavy contemplation over regrets and trivialities. Amidst Turner's passive experience of her turmoil, he engages the numerous trials of being a mall guard (from mall rats to car thieves) as he ponders the loneliness that pervaded his late friend's past, that now consumes his occupation""and worse, his relations with the "soft pretzel girl." Another Ohio is a contemporary drama commenting on the loneliness that permeates the everyday-American milieu. Further, it is an exploration into the murkiness of nostalgia and the aching desire found in failed love. < Less

Issue 3 of The Monongahela Review

Issue 3 of The Monongahela Review

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