This story started here. I stepped up on the front step of the News Store and then I turned to look again at the burned plot of land across the street, and the massive safe, remembering the events of … Continue reading
Well, I saw Avengers Endgame. It went against my rule not to see movies which are sequels to movies that I didn’t like, but it was about to leave theaters, and it was three hours of air conditioning (it was … Continue reading
This story started here. My employer smoked a cigarette as she looked out over the water. I had voted for getting some lunch (it would have been a late lunch, by then), but she was never hungry when there … Continue reading
This story started here. My employer, Jan Sleet, usually attracted some amount of attention when she walked down the street in Claremont. This was partly because she was becoming (she would have said “was”) a local celebrity — the … Continue reading
On Main Street in the town of Claremont, Massachusetts, there is a general store, called the News Store. It’s across the street from the Town Hall, and down the block from the Wagon Wheel, the restaurant where my employer and … Continue reading
I have a visceral negative reaction to some things (which I’m sure isn’t unusual). Certain Jim Steinman songs, for example. And the movie The Wall (my then-wife and I looked at each other halfway through and then we got up … Continue reading