He
drove a monster truck in a big stadium on the weekends. The roar of
cylinders and crowds still in his ears days later. So high up.
With such power under him, it was almost subterranean to sit in that
overstuffed chair his father died in with a mystery book on his lap.
Mickey Spillane, he recalled, with a single match for a bookmark.
Something about a shotgun hole in someone so big a baby could crawl
through without ever getting its shoulders wet. And nothing good
on TV, and their old cat just shit in his slipper. And his wife
was pecking at him from the kitchen about God-knew-what. And,
Christ!—the weekend just couldn't come quickly enough.
Robert
Scotellaro
Blood
and Soap
Linh
Dinh