Christopher Torockio is the author of a novel, Floating Holidays (Black Lawrence Press, 2007), and two story collections, most recently The Truth at Daybreak (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2008). His fiction has appeared in The Antioch Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, New Orleans Review, West Branch, Willow Springs, and many others. “Colt” is an excerpt from his novel-in-progress. He teaches at Eastern Connecticut State University.