Pee Wees by Rich Cohen

Author:Rich Cohen [Cohen, Rich]
Language: eng
Format: epub

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Sunday night. I-95 North. America’s bleakest highway. We drive in silence. Malaise drifts off the sixteen-wheelers. Even Micah feels it. I’m thinking about the game and all the work I have to do before another weekend comes around. He’s thinking about school. It’s dark at 5:00 p.m.

“Let’s get dinner,” I say, exiting near Stamford.

The stores are closed, the houses dark. We drive through a small town. There’s a village hall and a public square with a statue of a WWI doughboy. It’s nights like this that made Eugene O’Neill long for Communist Russia. I park in front of a diner. The windows are aglow. It’s a refuge on a desolate shore, a clean, well-lighted place. We go in and order cheeseburgers. As we look for a table, I spot Parky and Duffy in a corner. Having finished his meal, Parky is eyeing Duffy’s food. He looks up when I say hello, smiles sadly, and says, “I can’t stand this season.”

“Don’t give up,” I tell him. “There’s still a lot more hockey to play.”

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