HR

Click here or on the image above to open the two-page short story ‘HR.’ Written c1978, surviving copy was annotated by a Trenton State College instructor … when the writer was 22 years old. It explains his nickname’s origin.

(See image, below.)
The embedded letterform represents ‘RDH.’
The document demonstrates typological prowess: note small, paragraph-ending ligatures (in bold), made into a single glyph, within the text.
The ragged gutter accommodating an exaggerated tail of the ‘R’ in the letterform was accomplished by entering white space, line-by-line.

Image of the ligature 'HR' within typeset copy.

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