He got ingredients from a store nobody knew about anymore.  Big Lots . Nobody back home knew what that store even sold. "Isn't that place out of business yet?" his mom would ask.

It was the only store he could walk to, and not expect Danny to be there. Danny didn't...

On the edge of town was a small shop that baked bread every morning Monday to Friday.

It was the best bread Marc Love had ever had in the United States. He had had better bread elsewhere in the world. But in the states this random shop was it.

While living in...

He thought he could move in one day. He had always been able to move in one day before. This is not to say that he'd have his entire place unpacked, but everything from the truck would be unloaded into the new space.

This was the first time he couldn't empty...

He once accepted a bet, that he could eat nothing but peanut butter sandwiches for an entire month. At first the tail-yanker was saying he couldn't even last two weeks. But he, being bold, claimed he could last three. Then after a little back and forth the two were now...

I'll never forget, for years after  college graduation I feared  hunger so much that I had no mindspace to be worried about anything else.

This is why I could never get on board with what everyone else seemed to be upset about. All I could think about was how I'd get...

It was late. The time a healthy person wouldn't eat. Let alone be awake. But he had slept all day and had nothing more than two slices of toast with peanut butter rubbed onto them. As soon as he stepped out into the thick summer air the scent of alcoholics'...