Grower's Market by Michael Baughman

Author:Michael Baughman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2014-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

SHRIMP

He worried about the irrational fears that he commonly experienced. Before his war he had lived a carefree life. After high school graduation he made good money in the woods as a logger. In his free time he drank beer and chased women and hunted and fished. Then when logging in the over-cut forests slowed down to next to nothing he enlisted to earn college money. Now he was back from the war and everything was different. Without wasting time in college he earned better money than he’d ever dreamed of making, but he wasn’t happy. When he drank beer he couldn’t keep himself from wondering how beer glasses were made and whether there might be a chemical involved in their manufacture that would slowly poison him over the years. When he went steelhead or salmon fishing and hooked into a big one he feared that the fish would break off and escape because of a flaw in the monofilament line he was using. If he landed the fish he wondered if it might be contaminated with mercury. Wherever he was and whatever he was doing he often found it virtually impossible to acknowledge any form of happiness. If he started feeling good about something he soon concocted an idea to counteract his pleasure. A cold beer on a hot day or a delicious meal inevitably led to the idea that beer and food would make him fat and eventually cause diabetes or a heart attack. More than anything else in his life Shrimp wanted a woman to live with and to love but if he picked up a pretty girl at the Bird of Prey and took her home by the time they arrived at his place he had convinced himself she had to be diseased. He was certain that three tours of combat duty had a lot to do with his problems but he also thought there had to be something more and he couldn’t figure out what it was. But he kept trying.

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