The square was empty aside from a smoothie place, a Starbucks and a McDonald’s. There were some college kids milling about. Or were they younger he didn’t know. They all had nice phones different than how he grew up and they had headphones on sort of looked like celebrities it...

He felt weird moving around. It made him angry at first. He was tired. Slightly sweaty and confused. The outside world seemed brighter than he remembered. Also colder just harder to move though. He wanted go like his video games flying through the air landing perfectly. But he realized now...

He thought also about going to that bar. And then maybe he could go play disc golf finally. He thought about texting his friend. He was overwhelmed he felt his heart beating faster than he had in awhile.

A six pack from his youth was now covered up with layers of...

He still remembers some of the other guys. Derek, and Sal.

It was short for Salvatorre, or something. He had said his family was Italian. He wasn't he insisted American through and through. 

He always said he could really use a cigarette. That was one of the only ways Pete could...

It was a function of parents who were too overbearing and a school system that praised him with gold stars. But when he left and when he was gone he thought that he was at the center of everyone’s thoughts. 

Part of  Spacecity was posting online, you had to post...

People stayed longer too. Almost as soon as you did that there were the accusations of being a lifer. Keith was one and there was another guy before. Alan maybe started with an A.

They just kept going moving from contract to contract. Enlisting again and again. 

He decided from early...

He had his reasons that was for sure. It was before he had known that time changes things. Puts some things in perspective. Now big things back then seem little now now other things have occupied his mind. 

Back then it was mostly due to a girl or the lack...

He had read somewhere online, or maybe it was one of the guys online that said “if you can find a different perspective the world might become more beautiful.” He couldn’t remember where he saw it. But one of the guys on his gooning site said they bought a pair...

"You want a fill-up?" His wife asked him.

They communicated mostly through an ipad that he kept on his desk, and she an ipad on hers. They always kept it on. Them both in their respective caves. It had started as a sort of doing things alone together, but then they...

His shower wasn’t as bad as he thought. It had probably been weeks, but unlike his trash can it wasn’t mouldy. 

It smelled for sure. But he had soap and so he assumed it would clean itself. He checked the sink and had bleach so he poured that down the...