It didn’t take long after high school for Billy Joe Klagmire to discover that work of any kind ‘sorta’ gets in a person’s way of living. Even as a child he despised work with a passion and would always digress from the subject whenever it was mentioned. Billy Joe only held one job after...
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The Final Demise of Frankie’s Tin Horn
One Sunday morning Frankie called asking me to walk her to church. Her parents had already left picking up youngsters for Sunday school. She also reminded me it was her birthday and wondered if I’d forgot. When I knocked on the back door she yelled for me to come on in. Before opening the...
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