The Champ is Here

Nathan Dragons The Champ is Here is a loosely-linked collection that follows, with varying distance, an unnamed narrator, his dog and girlfriend or wife, from small American town to town. He tries on clothes in the mirror, drives by ladders hanging off bridges with his dog, surprises his baby with a roadtrip to Browns Lobster Pound. When a woodpecker disappears from the narrators yard, the stakes become existential. Even just him preparing a meal for his love for when she comes home from work can take on evolutionary implications.