Esquire Publishes Fiction by Handsome Actor James Franco

Franco’s short story, “Just Before the Black,” follows two friends on a car ride through the San Francisco Bay area. The pair waxes hypothetical on what they would do if they could travel back in time. The story also contains this sentence:

And before I even know it, or can enjoy the new look on Joe’s face, like a blubbery peekaboo face, so surprised, because I’m driving us right toward the vague beige shadow-filled wall, and I can only see and hear Joe for a second, a high-pitched thing that cracks for just a second, and for that second I’m with Joe’s voice on a plateau in the black of space, wherever it is that noise cracks like that and decibels live, and then it’s gone because there’s the metal...