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Buying Beer for Underaged Kids
I meet groups of 16 or 17 year olds a block away from the Circle K and they hand me too many crumpled bills to buy them a case of this or a mix bag of six packs to split when their parents think they’re at a friend’s house.
The Genius of Evil
Hello. My name is Todd, and I’m an alcoholic. I guess.
Out on Bail and Drunk and on the Run in Minnesota
Out on bail. I was as free as a fox in the meadow. The judge had restricted me to the four-corners of the state. That was fine.
How Christopher Became a Drunk
Christopher had skipped ahead of the Big Sky man.
Messed up Heads in a Helmet
In the middle of New Jersey, a family is sitting around the den.
Answers at the Bottom of a Glass
‘Rough day?’ I say to the man hunched over his drink on the opposite side of the bar.
Day Drinking / Amazon Prime Day
I was drinking all day and all night
There Was Brain Activity
after the second shot of reposado
the paramedic speaks of a call from a man with a gun on his tongue
Culture Wars / “Alexa,” I said “What’s the News?
Workmen have bricked up the windows and doors of houses belonging to the government’s worst critics.
TPK
You start in a tavern.