The freezer was packed. Jam packed. Ziplock bags filled with scallops. Freshly frozen, hand harvested treasures of the deep. Granted it was a small freezer atop my aging coppertone Frigidaire, but still, it held a lot of scallops. The fruits of a long and somewhat treacherous dive in the salty depths surrounding the forbidden pilings …
Monthly Archives: May 2020
Surprise Me
I never should have had that last drink. I shouldn’t have had the first nine either. But I did. Unfortunately I tend to stagger to the left when I’m looped, so when I left the bar it was to the left I staggered. To the right might have been better. There was a plasma donation …
Desperate Run
Sweat flooded from my forehead. My legs ached from hours of slogging through the knee-deep mucky swamp. My camouflage shirt was torn ragged on both sleeves. I was exhausted. My two foot machete was now dull from endless strikes against ferns and branches and brush. My arms burned from the relentless swinging of the long …