Real Man Adventures by T Cooper

Author:T Cooper [Cooper, T]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781938073526
Publisher: McSweeney's
Published: 2012-11-12T20:00:00+00:00

MY BROTHER: Well, you’re correct about where the spear went through my foot, but this is how it happened. I was spear-fishing off the big rock with a spear I had made from a wooden broomstick or dowel. I had attached a steel three-prong frog sticker tip I had gotten from the hardware store, and a rubber sling on the other end. I was using the old yellow long board that Dad got for me at a garage sale on the road when I was around ten, I think. Anyway, when I was paddling in and got to shore into about knee-deep water, I put the surfboard under my right arm and the sling part of the spear around my right wrist and started to walk out of the water. I was hit by a large wave and knocked down on my right side. One of the prongs with a barb on it stuck me on the inside of my heel where you remembered correctly, but the spear was lying on the sand with the surfboard trapped between me and the spear. Every time I tried to get up I couldn’t because the spear was holding me down with the board on top of it. That’s all I remember. I don’t really know how I got out of that mess with the waves hitting me and all, but I do remember that I had to really work that barb around for a while before I could get it out. It hurt like hell.

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