Lady called me out to swap one dead outlet in a back bedroom, said it never worked the whole time she lived there. I have been wiring houses around Kingsport …
A lady called me to swap a dead outlet in the back bedroom she always kept shut — what was hidden behind it put me on my heels Read MoreBought an old F-150 off a young fella here in Ardmore for almost nothing, on account of it would not start. Does not bother me, I have messed with trucks …
I bought a dead mans old F-150 in Ardmore and dropped the tank to fix it — what was sitting inside made me wipe my clean hands on my jeans Read MoreThe new owners did not want to trust the old boiler till I had looked it over, and I do not blame them. It was a coal job somebody converted …
The new owners wanted the old coal boiler checked in Gillette — the loose firebox brick set me back on my heels Read MoreHarold and I went a whole year without speaking. Not separated, not divorced, I want to be clear on that. We just quit talking. Had a falling out over the …
Harold and I went a whole silent year, but he wound my mothers clock every morning — after he passed, the winding key was sitting on top of something Read MoreThey were tearing the old grade school down in the spring, and they hired me to pull anything worth money out of her before the dozers came, copper mostly. I …
They hired me to strip the copper out of my own old grade school before the dozers came — the box behind the boiler room wall sat me down on the steps Read MoreWe got our first house cheap, my wife and me, twenty-nine and thirty, been renting our whole marriage, and the reason it was cheap is the fella before us left …
We got our first house cheap because the family before us left in a hurry — what I found reaching blind into the attic froze me on the ladder Read MoreI have coached the girls swim team at our community pool for seventeen years, and Maddie was always one of my first-in, last-out kids. A little fish. Loved the water …
I have coached the girls swim team for seventeen years — the little fish who started swimming in a baggy T-shirt finally told me why Read MoreBought a chest freezer at an estate sale over in Boone for twenty-five bucks, and I will be straight with you, I only went because my sister dragged me. My …
I bought a chest freezer at an estate sale in Boone for twenty-five bucks — the wire holding the bottom basket down sat me on the garage floor Read MoreCalled me out for the most ordinary thing there is, kitchen line draining slow, lady said it had been getting worse a month or so. I have run a drain …
A sweet old couple called me out for a slow kitchen drain in Odessa — what my auger pulled up forty feet down I could not make myself open alone Read MoreAfter Dad passed I got it in my head I was finally going to learn his guitar. Sixty-one years old, never once picked one up, but he played on the …
After Dad passed I decided at sixty-one to finally learn his guitar — what was hidden in the lining of the case put me down on the kitchen floor Read More