Steven Potter Steven Potter is a writer and editor based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His stories and essays have appeared in Adirondack Life, Climbing, Conjunctions, Narrative Magazine, Outside Magazine, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA in fiction from New York University.

Men at Arms | Fiction

Steven Potter

We called him Thomas, never Tommy, because Tommy Guns were the weapons of gangsters and no amount of yearning on our parts could make a Red Ryder air rifle so cool.  Thomas used no gunpowder, and his metal BBs only penetrated human skin when fired at point-blank range. But he did have a lever action and a beautiful hardwood stock, and these things, taken together, seemed capable of convincing the...