The Newest Magician in the World! Louis, his mother said, we haven’t the time. Yet she pauses. Waits. He is practicing his magic trick, the one where he makes a coin disappear. Ten year old hands, new quarter. He is working up to cards then has plans for the dog, affable & calm if too big to be palmed. Plus she wriggles. Maybe the cat. Next it will be his big sister god willing vanished into the closets of telephone conversations which never end. Eventually he will disappear himself into city alleys splashed in neon reflections. One stumble from prison. Sure, kid. Show me your trick. Travis Stephens