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Low Tide on “The Brown Coast”

Every week, we feature a story from our archive, now available online in full to subscribers. Today, Daniel Johnson looks at a 2002 Wells Tower story, from issue no. 161.

If you ask me, there’s nothing funnier than a man seeing all that he’s created—built, grown, accrued, whatever—brought to ruin by the simple, ruthless, infuriating existence of his hapless neighbors. Such is the fate of Bob Munroe, the tragic hero in Wells Towers’s short story, “The Brown Coast.”