Pushcart 2026 L: Nadir Jabur, “The Uber Men” from Tint Journal, Spring 2024

DaVinci: Fight between a dragon and a lion The coldest Christmas Eve on record and it was hands down my biggest order ever. I’d been driving for almost a year since The Daily Witness fired me. I used to be a features writer. And married. Now I was a newly separated Uber Man. It’s a rule right up there with Chekhov’s Gun: If you’re gonna use phrases like Uber Man in your story, you’d better bring the Nietzsche. Jabur does – in spades. The story is available online (all links below): Zee and a trio of his Uber friends meet up at Montreal’s fanciest Japanese restaurant, waiting for orders to deliver on a snowy Christmas Eve. Zee faces three decision points, and while he blows it the first time, he gets the hang of it by decision #3. And yes, it’s loaded with Nietzsche, who is … well, it’s been quite a while since I’ve wrestled with the gent, and, I confess, I’ve never actually read Thus Spake Zarathustra. The core idea is the philosophical evolution of mankind, from the Last Man, mired…