By Mike Nagel

Mike Nagel's essays have appeared in The Awl, apt, Hobart, Salt Hill, DIAGRAM, and The Paris Review Daily. His essay 'Beached Whales' was a Best American Essays 2017 notable essay.


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Third Person

  In November, after the Kroger next to my apartment installed a system of security cameras and monitors, assumedly to cut down on shoplifting by making it clear that SOMEONE WAS ALWAYS WATCHING, even if that someone was you, I began visiting the store regularly, for no real reason other than to watch myself walk…