The Old Man & The Sea Part 4: The Fish

The Old Man & The Sea Part 4: The Fish “Then the fish came alive, with his death in him, and rose high out of the water showing all his great length and width and all his power and his beauty.” — Ernest Hemmingway, The Old Man and The Sea         Charles Thomas cursed his […]

The Old Man & The Sea, Part 3: The Rod & Reel

The Old Man & The Sea, Part 3: The Rod & Reel “He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women , nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and of the lions on the beach. They played […]

The Old Man & The Sea, Part 2: The Deep

The Old Man & The Sea, Part 2: The Deep “But the old man always thought of her as feminine and as something that gave or withheld great favors, and if she did wild or wicked things it was because she could not help them. The moon affects her as it does a woman, he […]

The Diner: Dale

The Diner: Dale “These fragments I have shored against my ruins” ― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land “Order up!”         Dale had been a fry cook for as long as anyone could remember.         He started as a teenager flipping burgers at the concession stand in the park during baseball games. The job began on Memorial Day […]

The Old Man & The Sea, Part 1: The Rowboat

The Old Man & The Sea, Part 1: The Rowboat “Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?” — Ernest Hemmingway, The Old Man and The Sea         Each spring, as Charles Thomas pulled the battered rowboat down to the shoreline, he couldn’t help but remember how the story was […]