Expect uproar in this excerpt from the novel Adrift in the Sound. The story takes place after the death of Greg, Marian’s boyfriend. The Dogs decide to honor Greg’s memory with a baseball game and challenge the Tuggers, a hard-swinging tugboat team from the docks. The Dogs are a ragtag tavern softball club, mostly drunks and potheads kicking around Seattle in the early 1970s. Lizette, Marian, and Sandy, the mother of baby Violet, live next door to the Dogs. They come along for the game and so do a couple of cops who’ve been tailing the
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Albert the Allegory muses on Global Warming
Well, I was down to the swamp an this allegory, least I think it were an allegory I know one got a skinnier nose than the other but you know what I mean… He climbed up out’n the water, looked me in the eye and commenced to tellin’ this story.
I figured I didn’t have nuthin
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