A Painter on a planet of blind people. By Michael Disends

This story is all about one court handball.  Yes,  I know how hard that is to believe but apparently it was a game that was very popular and taken very seriously in parts of Brooklyn.  This story is set in Coney Island.  It talks about the old time players,  the people who place bets on the games.   There is even a hall of fame for handball.  The story describes the strategies in handball, like in any sport.  It also describes the borough of Brooklyn and all the different people who live there.  It is the story of one player Joe Durso who is at the top of the game.  But he is getting old.  Joe concludes at the end of the story that  "this game is all about I'm better that you, its not like painting where you're trying to communicate some principal.  It's just im better than you...".  In this statement, Joe is stating that the game he has spent so much of life perfecting is "childish" and is an "ego confrontation".