Sporadically Brian

"Hey big guy, check this out." Allen grabs another Schlitz "Tall Boy" from the cooler by his chair and opens the bottom with a church key. Of course I know all about "shooting beers" but [...]

"Ok... everybody off the roof!!" I was just getting another bucket of tar from the hook and line setup we had to bring it up from the guy working the kettle below. "Heh" I was [...]

To try and put it in all at once would be courting disaster. ----------------------------------------- All day. I'm working the kettle. Toxic fumes from the tank, surround me. My skin sweats oil and dirt and chemical [...]

"Ya know one o them crazy motherfuckers actually jumped in there last time?" "What?" "Pay attention kid! You actually might learn something." The guy "training" me spits his cigarette on the ground and walks closer. [...]

And now I’m here. Walking in this town in Kansas. Walking away from a sad, ugly strip club thinking of the strip club Fred brought me to in Omaha. ------------------------------------ Fred had just gotten the [...]

Walking. No direction, no purpose, no thoughts. Until one night when I let those guys talk me into coming with them. What a depressing, ugly place. That small, dark, smoky, sad, sad room. Toxic sadness. Sad [...]