I was 16, a high school dropout, feeling grown, with a job and a car of my own. The car was a 1972 Ford Pinto which I drove like a Carmen Ghia. The job? I was the strutting assistant manager of the neighborhood burger bar. It was the Cosmos.
The Cosmos was [...]
There were four of us, all out on summer vacation from school, and we had been out all morning playing army in the woods near the school. Bored and looking for something to do, we ended up at the school playground.
Looking back, I don’t quite understand how we always ended up playing at school when [...]
Cecilia left on Wednesday, she had flown to Chicago to be with her girlfriend who was pregnant and had just gone to the hospital 6 weeks early with labor pains. Michael didn’t expect her back until Monday evening. This was Memorial Day weekend and no one had to be back to work until Tuesday.
Michael [...]