Things I Never Wrote About by Nicholas Rys

- The time Jesse, Bill, and I got high and ran through the woods from the cops
- what happened with those girls in the trees by their house when I was five
- Viv’s depression                                            	
- That night we picked up drugs in the West End and their daughter woke up
- The Boys Ranch in Wilton
- Bonnie's Cancer
- That diner in Xenia
- When I bought drugs from your sister in Ligonier as her baby slept
- Throwing a road cone at a taxi in the Cayman Islands
- When we stole those drums from the neighbor's porch
- The hit and run in Newark
- The train ride to my sister's when my nephew was born
- How I almost killed myself that same summer 
- My year out of the country 

Nicholas Rys is a writer and writing instructor living in Syracuse, New York. He teaches writing courses at Syracuse University, and creative writing workshops independently online. His writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Antioch Review, Lake Effect, Indiana Review, and others. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Bowling Green State University.

17 August 2026