: About Me

I am a former:

shoe-shine boy,

newspaperman,

mason,

stone-cutter,

aircraft cargo loader,

truck driver,

instructor and

marine.

I am:

married,

retired,

a baby sitter,

a would-be pilot,

a bicycle rider,

(dangerous on county streets)

a scribbler.

And,

I

cook.

Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: The unexpected

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The Find Cecilia turned down the black, oil-packed dirt road toward the sea. She was heading home, a ramshackle conglomeration of shipping containers that her father had pushed, together and piled atop one another. He had insulated and decorated his domestic achievement with cardboard and any piece of driftwood that came his way. He had painted the interior pink. Either someone had forgotten the five-gallon buckets of paint at the big-box hardware center or someone could not find room for the paint on his truck. Emilio found room in his aging Mercury station wagon and was quick to perform ...

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