Red Fish Project

#8: With growing existential horror, Red Fish realizes he has been reading his own ingredients.

Carl's Lesson

My friend Carl slouches at the wheel of his pickup truck. He slouches waiting at the checkout counter. I can pick him out in any darkened bar because of that slouch.

He told me when he was a little kid his father said, “If you don’t stand up straight I’m gonna pay two niggers from Trenton to chain your shoulders back.”

So began Carl’s education as a racist.

And he still has that slouch.

Red Fish Project

#7: Red Fish regrets his momentary, and completely uncharacteristic, urge to do the Dew.



(Red Fish sighting by Gayle McCune)