You sit at a $5 minimum bet table to play heads-up with the dealer, but an old man sits to your right, his silver chest hair poking through the buttons of his Hawaiian shirt.
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Tatiana Schlote-Bonne received an MFA at the University of Iowa in The Nonfiction Writing Program. Recent essays have appeared in F(r)iction, The Iowa Review, The Los Angeles Review, and Narrative Magazine. She lifts weights and plays Magic: The Gathering in Iowa City.