The Story I Didn’t Tell
I’d been laying foundation, digging the footing for subsidized housing. My father, afraid that I wouldn’t make tuition, used his connections. The foreman lived with whiskey at a local motel; he showed me how to cut thumb-thick rebar with bolt loppers, how to use the pick to break clay, how to put my weight into the shovel. He disliked me immensely. That’s how it was. If I […]
