Pistol Stories

Choices Day in, Day out. News flood into your life. Wake with a headache. Walk to work with the same. Shadows dance in the storefront glass. Mocking you. Voices cooing in your brain. Choices Pat's Bar lights bright, gleaming glasses. Filled with Jack, music pounding. Choices Simon at the corner, want some horse? Hot needle and Moody in the background Choices Dark house candles burning. Two pistols one empty one with a rou...

Jimmy was born on July 5, 1897. Until he was five or six, he believed all the parades and excitement on July 4 th were in celebration of his birthday. He was a little disappointed; when in the first grade, he learned they were not. He was an intelligent child, with an abiding curiosity, particularly in the sciences and mechanics. Because he was a late child of a second marriage, his father indulged him greatly. When he wa...