One of the Baltimore friends had spent, or misspent, a youth working in carnivals and small circus'. As a sideshow side job, he'd dabbled in ( his words not mine) swallowing sharp objects and flame swallowing.
Playing With Fire
Caution
If you were me in the '60s and early '70s, you always walked with one shoulder higher than the other.
Relationships
While in the Navy, I served with a former professional bull rider named John. He described a bull ride as the most dangerous eight seconds in sports.
Seagulls
A cat can be a fearsome opponent. Ounce for ounce, an enraged feline can do more damage than most other beasties two to three times their size.
Friday Night Party
Down the corridor, a contest was going on between the Grey Menace and his buddy the double clawed Jean LeFoot. It was similar to the human "game" of one punch - give me your best shot, except with paws. They were very bored.
The Chest
The Cap'n kept his finances close to his chest, so to say. In a small locked chest below his desk.
Motherhood Tells
Before the puppies were weaned correctly, she and a retriever named Max ran off together for buoyant fun in a neighbors pond.
Random
A conversation on the nature of life took place in the waterfront workshop of a lobsterman I knew many years ago.
Nautical
I lived a good chunk of my early life among men who'd made their living at sea. It tends to leave an impression on you.
Garden
When I landed my first actual professional job after grad school, it was not a berth for a practicing ( applied) anthropologist. I had to bend, twist, spindle, and mutilate it into one.
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