Mike Piero’s short story, “The Keeper of Numbers,” appeared in J Journal: New Writing on Justice, a publication of CUNY’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice. In a story the editors described as “poor Gregor Samsa meeting Dostoevsky’s underground man,” a college employee who reconciles dining receipts and reads philosophy in his spare time decides to record all of his thoughts before he dies.
Read “The Keeper of Numbers” open access here.
