Green Center Fiction

Down and Away


“Don’t you know?”

I hear her, but I’m not answering.

“Charlie”, her voice is louder now.

“I heard what you said the first time”, I snap back.

“Then why didn’t you answer me?”

I didn’t answer because her back was to me while asking, just like what she’s doing now, but I’m not going to answer her until she turns around. We’ve been awake since this time yesterday. I got home from work at eight in the morning, and when I walked in he was still putting on his clothes. I yelled, “What the fuck is going on?”

The guy rushed past me and down the stairs. After that, it’s just been me and Rachel, and I’ve been drinking and yelling almost the whole time. I don’t hit women though, so she has nothing to worry about physically. We did leave once to the beer store, and I refrained from yelling while we were in public. We saw Danny and he was already toasted and coming to town for more. He told us to come out to his camp later, but we’ve been here at the apartment the whole time.




“Don’t you know?” This time she’s facing me.

“It’s his.”

“I think it is.”

That’s what it took twenty four hours to find out. She’s having this other guy’s baby. This is probably true as I’ve been working nights at the mill and our sex life together was pretty non-existent. She never wanted to in the morning and she was always gone before I left for work. Sometimes she’d be around during the day and we’d roll around in bed for awhile, but those days were few.

I agree that the baby is probably his, but I’m not telling her that right now. Right now, I’m leaving and I’m going to go drink beer with Danny all day until I pass out on his couch.

I’m taking her Jeep and leaving her my truck. She hates driving a stick. The beer store should be open by now, and then off to Danny’s camp. The road to the camp is gravel and I’m taking it slow because I’m loaded and Rachel might have called the cops when she heard me leave. Danny is on his porch when I pull up. He looks like he hasn’t slept much either. His eyes are bloodshot and he hasn’t shaved. He looks at me and smiles then asks “You wanna go fishing?”

“Sure when?” I’m staggering and reaching into the Jeep’s back door to get my beer.

“Right now man”, says Danny. “I’ve been catching big ones in the morning.”

“Yeah, that’s what you told me yesterday.” I answer back as I’m looking for my shoes in the Jeep. Danny already has the boat ready so all I do is take my bag into his kitchen and then we’re in the water.

The lake is still and the boat cuts a wake right to the middle and then north towards a cove surrounded by cliffs. We scare a family of geese as we turn. Their bodies are dark in the light blue summer sky and they attract the interest of an eagle. Danny stops the boat about twenty-feet from shore, right by the cliffs. We decide we’re going to jig for walleye on the bottom, right by where Danny said he’s been catching them. It’s quiet here. The cliffs block any wind. The lake is a mirror. There are pike jumping close to the cliffs, making ripples, but Danny and I want the walleye. We get our rods around and our lines are in the water. We haven’t said a word since we were on shore. It’s Danny who finally pipes up.

“So what’s gong on with you and Rachel?” Danny’s cracking open a can of beer.

“I caught her and Stephan Dupont in bed together. He was putting his pants on when I came in from work.” I can’t look at Danny as I speak. I kind of don’t want to talk about it, but he asked and it’s his boat.


We don’t say anything else for a few minutes. The first hit is just a light bump, but then my rod nearly bends in half and my drag is grinding.

“Holy fuck!” yells Danny. “First fish of the day.”

“Oh it’s a nice one”, I’m not yelling, but I’m pretty wound up. The fish feels like one of the big ones Danny was talking about. I fight it for awhile. It wants to go under the boat, but I finally get it close enough so Danny can get it in the net. It’s a big fish with a big yellow belly. I’m thinking probably six pounds. Danny’s yelling and I’m just smiling. After getting the fish in the bag I wash my hands off in the lake and have Danny give me a beer. Danny lights a cigarette and he’s still laughing.

“I still love her you know.” I’m smiling as I say this, but Danny stops laughing. He doesn’t say anything so I speak up again.

“That’s what I can’t get around. She can hurt me like this, but I still love her. If she leaves me I don’t know what the fuck I’m going to do.” I take a big sip of beer then light a cigarette. It’s quiet again. The loons are calling near the middle of the lake, and the cliffs amplify their voices. There’s a breeze up in the trees, on top of the cliffs. Down here on the lake, it’s still.



Danny looks at his watch and says “We’ve only been here ten minutes and we’ve got a big goddam fish.” It’s not ten seconds after Danny says this that he catches one. He looks at me like he just sat on a tack.

“Holy fuck!” he yells. His rod is bent just as far as mine was on the first one. “We’re sitting right on top of them or something.” He’s yelling and reeling in at the same time. I grab the net and watch the water for the fish. After about forty-five seconds I get a glimpse of the fish as it turns its belly to the surface. I get the net in the water and Danny leads it right in. It’s another walleye, at least six pounds. We keep catching fish like this for at least an hour. Danny and I both wind up with three nice walleye. We’re almost ready to head into town for more beer, but we decide against it when we get back to the cabin.

We clean our fish and drink at least two more beers each and Danny is telling stories about working out west, in the oil sands. She’s all I can think about. Danny’s voice may as well be the engine of a car, just a hum in the background. I should probably quit drinking for the day and try to get some sleep, but I don’t know if I can. And when I wake up, then what?

“Fuck I’m starving”, says Danny. “We should cook these up eh? We should cook these and try and catch some more later.”

“I’m done fishing for today”, I tell him. “Is it cool if I crash on your couch?”

“Hey make yourself to home there”, says Danny motioning to the couch. “Just don’t worry about that shit right now okay?”

As he’s talking we both hear a truck pulling up. It’s Rachel. She comes in the cabin without knocking, like she always does. I don’t say anything. I don’t want to see her now, but I do want to. I want to fall asleep beside her and wake up realizing what happened but not care. My stomach is twisting. I sit down on the couch and stare into my beer can like it’s a book or something. Nobody says anything at first so Rachel finally speaks up.

“I had to drive your piece of shit truck Charlie”, she’s almost laughing while she’s talking. “You guys eat yet?”

“We’re gonna eat what we just caught”, answers Danny.

I can’t look up. I want to run out the door and dive into the lake and keep swimming until I reach the other side. I want to climb up on the shore and find a place to lie down and go to sleep. Instead, I just sit here and stare into my beer can. Rachel is looking right at me while she’s talking.

“You guys are drunk. Let me cook.”

Danny just nods approval and sits down in the chair next to me, turning on the television. He turns the channel to the race and the announcer’s voice is just like when Danny was telling stories earlier, just a hum in the background. I don’t know why she’s here. Does she have something to tell me? While she’s cooking she’s talking to Danny about her brother who Danny used to work with. They’re talking about the time her brother and Danny wound up driving to Marathon and wrecking her brother’s truck because they were drinking and getting high. Rachel is laughing and looking right at me like nothing at all has happened. It’s like everything is normal, we’re just hanging out with Danny, drinking beer, cooking fish. I feel sick to my stomach.

I can’t be in the same room as her. I’ll freak out or something, I swear. I go outside and walk down to the lake. I’m sitting down on the beach and notice I don’t feel well. Nausea. I stand up and start to vomit and since all I’ve been consuming since yesterday morning is beer that’s all that comes out. I keep throwing up until all that comes out is the bitter, yellow bile from the bottom of my gut, but even then I can’t stop the heaving in my stomach. Between each heave I’m coughing and my lungs ache with each cough and then I’m heaving again, but nothing is coming out. My stomach keeps seizing and I’m coughing. I’m on my knees and my eyes are filled with water and I almost forget where I am. I’m lightheaded.

After this, I’m staggering back up to the cabin and I make it to the porch and lay down in Danny’s hammock. I close my eyes and just wish she would go away, but I know she’s still in there talking to Danny about her brother and how fucked up they all used to get together and I want to go in there and scream and cry and let her know, but I don’t. I just lay here.

“Do you want me to leave?”

She’s standing over me as she speaks. I’m not sure what time it is. I think I was sleeping.

-“I want you to stay.”

-“I mean do you want me to leave here.”

-“I don’t know.”

-“I’m going to leave.”

-“Are you going to see him tonight?”

-“I don’t know.”

-“Do you love him?”

-“Jesus Charlie. You’re drunk.”

-“You’re here for some reason.”

-“I just wanted to make sure you’re okay.”

-“I love you Rachel.”

-“Come in and eat.”

-“Where’s Danny?”

-“Asleep on the couch.”

-“Stay here tonight.”

-“I’m leaving. The fish is on the table.”

-“I love you Rachel.”

-“Bye Charlie.”



I must have been sleeping a few hours out here on the porch. My watch says 6:45. Danny is still asleep inside the cabin. It’s hot out. The thermometer on the porch says 85 Fahrenheit. I’m feeling fairly sober. I need a swim, but I want to do it from the boat, out in the lake.

I’m out in the middle of the lake and there is no wind. It’s so quiet. I take off my shirt and shoes and dive in. I stay underwater with my eyes closed until I have to come up for air. I go back under. As I’m swimming I see her face and I see him in our room and I see them together, fucking, holding each other, laughing. I stay under and swim deeper, trying to erase what I see. I go deeper and see myself and I’m looking for her. I’m walking down a dirt road and it’s the middle of the night and I wonder where she is, and I don’t seem to understand that she’s nowhere to be found on this road, in the middle of the night, and I swim deeper and my lungs start to ache, but I stay under and the road stretches out before me in the dark and the moon is the only light, and it’s huge and orange and menacing and again I see her face and she’s laughing and I want to kiss her, but she’s looking at him and they’re together and she’s in his arms and it’s morning and they’re waking up together and a baby is crying, and she’s happy, but I’m still here, underwater. I’m almost out of air. I head for the top, kicking with my legs, pushing with my arms. Her voice is in my ear, calling my name. I can see her old car, the one she owned when we were first dating. It’ pulling up in my parent’s driveway and I’m in the front yard talking to mom and Rachel gets out of the car and she’s smiling and she’s so beautiful. Everything goes black, but I still hear her voice and I’m swimming faster. I need air.

I come to the surface and the lake is so still and the air too, but there is a sound. It’s the sound of twigs being snapped and brush being pushed aside. Something huge is coming out of the woods. It’s a moose, a cow. She’s heading straight for the water. Her head is down and she doesn’t seem to notice me or the boat. She crashes through the brush to the shore of the lake, smashing the small trees that have somehow managed to come to life in the sand of the small beach. As she lumbers into the lake a cloud of blackflies and mosquitoes flies off of her back, back into the trees. We’re about fifty feet from each other. I’m looking at her. She finally looks at me. The ripples she makes finally reach me. The only sound is the light wind in the treetops and the occasional stirring of a bird. I go back under and swim around some more then come back up for air. She’s still in the lake and up to her head by now. It’s quiet again.

I go back under a couple more times, being careful not to swim too close to her. She just wants to be where it’s cool, just like me. I’m back in the boat after a few more dives and as I start the engine she heads back to shore. The water trails off of her fur and as I pull away I see her backside disappearing into the bush. I’m heading back to camp to try and get some more sleep. I’m thinking Danny’s hammock is about the best place to sleep tonight if I don’t want to keep waking up. The heat makes it hard for me to sleep.

Danny’s waking me up. I slept all night. It’s cooler now, in the morning. It must have rained, but I didn’t hear it. Everything is wet. There’s a mist on the lake, and Danny has made some eggs.

“Let’s go fishing”, says Danny. “Those fuckers are probably hungry.”

“Yeah, fucking right”, I answer back.

After breakfast, we’re back in the boat. We cut a nice wake over to our spot by the cliffs. That’s where the big ones are.


*****


Dirt Roads and Demons Of The Night



The first time I met Francis Beacon she was laying in a ditch, half-naked, and pretty beat up. Those boys had really done a number on her those three days they held her in the woods, out at the cabin. They deserved to have their heads caved in for what they did to that poor girl. When I saw her in that ditch I couldn’t figure out if I wanted to cry or kill. I tried not to frighten her, but I wanted to get her up off the ground and into the truck.

“Hey young lady”, I said to her. “I’m here to help you, get up off that ground and get in the truck.”

“My name’s Francis Beacon”, she said. I told her that I knew who she was, that her name and picture were on the news and in the paper. She looked so scared.

“My name’s Mel. I’ll get you to town and to a hospital.”

She just shook her head signifying “yes” or “okay”. She was trembling. “They had a red car” she said. “They’re still there at the cabin.”
“Let’s just get you to town” I answered. She started crying as she stared out the passenger window of my log truck. “You can lay down in my cab…” I don’t think she heard me or she ignored me. I understood that this was probably the wrong thing to offer her.

I took her to the hospital and the staff asked me a bunch of questions while I was there, but Francis kept telling them that I helped her and that they should leave me alone because all I was doing was getting her to where she was safe. I remember the one head nurse. She was pretty young to be in charge, I thought. I knew her, she was Gary Simpson’s daughter, Rachel. Her dad used to sell me diesel before he retired. Rachel had inherited his blond hair and his arrogance. She thought her job included detective or something.

“You’re a single man aren’t you Mr. Thomas?” she asked.

My ex-wife, Renee, had left me years ago for my old business partner. I deserved it. They live in North Bay now. I didn’t answer Rachel, Francis yelled at her instead. “Leave him alone, they would have found me if he hadn’t come along!” Rachel just turned up her nose and left the room.
The doctor didn’t treat me much better. I left the room while he examined Francis and when he came back out he started in to interrogating me again.

“Hey doctor, how is she doing?”

“You said you found her in a ditch, how did you see her all the way up in your truck.” He hadn’t answered my question.

“I can show you where I found her” I was getting nervous for some reason. It had been a long day already and I still had to get my logs to the mill and now this doctor thought he was a cop. When the police finally showed up it was all straightened out. I was in the room when she told them the names of the boys who had kidnapped and raped her.

Jesse Roush and Clyde Johnson were known in town for drugs, drinking, and being worthless. Their parents were loaded. Jesse’s dad, Steve, was a contractor, a good guy, but his son never seemed interested in work. Clyde’s parents, Mary and Allen, were both bankers. Clyde had a fast car, a red Camaro. He and Jesse would drive around town all day, wasting gas and brain cells. Sometimes they would head out of town on the log roads, drinking and smoking, that’s where they found Francis.

Francis was from Sudbury originally, but she’d moved to Toronto where she was getting ready to graduate from the university and enter law school. She was out of school for the summer and was headed to the lakes to find a friend’s cabin. Francis had never been this far north before. She’d taken the wrong dirt road and before she had even figured that out the moose walked out in front of her. Her car was totaled and she had no idea where she was. That’s when Jesse and Clyde came over the hill in the Camaro.


I finally left the hospital after dark. By then some reporters were in the parking lot. The cops weren’t letting any of them in the hospital or anywhere near Francis. I didn’t want to talk to any of them so I just kept my head down and walked towards my truck. It was still parked on the other side of the ambulance bay with my load of logs that was supposed to be at the mill four hours ago. It had been hot and sunny all day, but since we’d been inside a rainstorm had kicked up. The rain stopped as I walked to my truck and the pavement crackled as the water drained. I got in the cab and turned off the radio. I drove back to the shop, parked my truck and had Kimi, my best driver, come in to work. He hauled the logs that night. I sat in my office and drank half of a bottle of rye whiskey. I didn’t feel a thing. I went home and tried to go to sleep.

Clyde Johnson’s parents bailed him out of jail the next day. Jesse’s dad left him in there until the trial started. Clyde committed suicide right after the New Year. His parents were in the Bahamas and he was out at their cabin, where he and Jesse had taken Francis. Word around town was that he’d been on a week long coke-binge. He walked out on the ice and shot himself with his Dad’s 12-gauge.

Jesse had a son with this girl from town. They were on-again off-again for years and they never did get married. In jail, Jesse lost his freedom and also access to his Dad’s wallet. That’s how he’d help pay for the kid for the last four years. His friends in town decided they wanted to help out. They held a giant party outside of town and charged for beer and food. The party was held one year to the day that Clyde and Jesse got their hands on Francis. Jesse’s friends would raise over 1200 dollars.

The next time I would see Francis is when she came back to town for Jesse’s trial, just over a year later. I was sitting in the reception area of the prosecutor’s office. I was there to give a deposition and in walked Francis. She’d cut her hair short. She was wearing a grey skirt and dark blouse. She looked like just another lawyer or clerk moving around in the halls of the municipal building, but I recognized her right away and she smiled when she saw me.
“Mel, I never had the chance to thank you for helping me.” She cup my right hand her hands and my heart sped up. “You’re welcome” that was all I could say. Her parents followed her into the room and Francis introduced us. Her Dad looked just like her, a round face with huge, friendly eyes. Her mom was taller than both of them, but Francis had her dark hair. They thanked me again and I just smiled and shook their hands.

“Wow, it looks like everyone is on time but me today.” It was the prosecutor, Mr. Primeau. He was from down south too, but he’d been in the area for the better part of ten years. “Mel, good to see you”, Donald Primeau was married to my ex’s sister, Jennifer.

“You too Don, how’s Jen, the kids?” I was shaking his hand while talking.

“Everyone’s great, how’s your mum?”

“She’s good, she misses Dad. We all do, but she’s around a lot of friends where she lives”, I noticed Francis smiling at Don and I. I’d seen that smile in her pictures that ran in the papers for those three or four days, but this was the first time I’d seen it for real. I was beginning to regret wearing a tie that day. I felt like I was slowly being choked.

“I’ll get to you soon Mel, but I need to speak to Francis first. Sorry if I’m keeping you too long.”

I told Don that I had the day off and to take as long as he needed. He was in his office with Francis and her parents for over an hour. My deposition lasted just an hour, and we were done before lunch. I thought about going back to work, maybe running a load in the evening, but instead I went fishing. The day was cloudy, but I knew walleye were biting in the river. I had caught my limit in an hour so I went out on the lake and tried for pike. The sun had come out and I caught two Northerns on a silver spoon within a half-hour. I was pulling up to shore around dusk when I noticed someone walking along the dock. It was Francis.

I put the fish in my cooler and was ready to put my boat on the trailer. She was sitting at the end of the dock staring out across the lake. She hadn’t noticed me. I wasn’t sure if I should approach her or not. I put my rods and tackle in the truck and when I turned around she was gone from the dock. She was coming up behind me.

“Hi Mel, did you catch any fish?” She was wearing jeans and a black top, sandals too.

“Oh yeah, they’re biting tonight. Do you fish?” My stomach was in my throat.

“No, but my Dad likes to think he can.” We both laughed, nervously.

“Well, as long as you’re all in town let him know that I’ll take him out anytime in the evening. I’m usually working during the day.” She smiled and looked at the ground, kicking a small rock against my tire.

“They’re both leaving tomorrow. They’ll be back when the trial starts. I’m staying out at Mrs. Primeau’s cabin.”

She meant Don’s mother. I knew right where the cabin was. When I was married to Renee I’d helped Don build a dock out there. It took all day, but Mrs. Primeau fed us well. Don’s mom had died the year before, and he hadn’t sold the cabin. I guess he was going to let Francis and her parents stay there during the trial.

All I told Francis was, “Yeah, it’s nice out there.” She looked puzzled, but then nodded. We both stood there for a few seconds, in silence, so I just asked her. “Hey, I haven’t loaded the boat yet, you want to go for a ride across the lake?”

“Sure, let me call Dad first, he’s probably wondering where I am.”

As she was on the phone I pulled the boat up to shore. She sat in the middle. We went across the bay and past the old mill. Francis looked straight ahead, the wind blowing her hair back. A couple of times, she turned around to smile at me. She pointed to a couple of loons flying next to the boat and laughed when I turned the bow into our wake, bouncing the boat across the waves.

Renee and I would fish in the evenings. When we were first married, I would come home and Renee would already have the gear packed with a cooler of beer ready to go. We would fish until dusk and eat our catch for dinner the next night. Renee was working for the bank and I was driving all day. I met Olivia two-years after I got married. She had moved to town to work in the mill. Her husband had left her and she had two kids, but I thought she was sexy. Renee found out about our affair through my business partner, Ed McKinnon. I don’t blame him for telling her. They were friends before we were married and I guess he would only lie to her for so long.

Renee and I separated after just 30 months of marriage. I had told her that I ended it with Olivia, but one night she saw my pick-up outside Olivia’s apartment. She left me for good the next day. A year later, Renee and Ed were living together. Ed and I remained business partners through the divorce, but once it was final they married pretty fast. He sold me his half of the business and used the money to buy him and Renee a house in North Bay. Last I heard Ed was selling Ski-Doos and playing a lot of golf. They have a son named Wesley.

I made a couple of trips to the center of the lake. Within a half-hour I had Francis and the boat back to shore.

“Thanks Mel, I’ll probably see you around” she was walking towards her rental car and waving goodbye. I got home that night, drank three beers and fell asleep in front of the TV, woke up and went to work the next day.

I wouldn’t have to testify and neither would Francis. Adding together her deposition and the physical evidence, Jesse didn’t stand a chance. He plead guilty on the first day of jury selection, four days after Francis had come to town. Don called me on my cell phone and told me what had happened. I was on the road, halfway home from a morning run to the pulp mill. I wouldn’t see Francis again for two years.

The prosecutor’s office dropped the kidnapping charge in exchange for the plea agreement so Jesse Roush was sent to jail for ten years. The conviction was aggravated sexual assault. The next summer, Jesse’s friends held the party again, on that same day. That year, they made tee-shirts to sell, along with the beer and food. The next year they had a band and it was so big they had to rent port-o-johns. All the kids in town were out there. They raised more money than ever. The party even had a name – “Cabin Fever” – that’s what it said on the shirts.

I kept driving everyday, except Sundays. That winter seemed colder and longer than any I had remembered. There was a train wreck that January, cutting the town in half for a couple of days. The mills shut down on account of striking workers. My mother died in February. She’d had a stroke and was gone within three days. A week after mom died, Kimi wrecked a truck on his way home from Terrace Bay and nearly killed himself. In March, the apartment building where Olivia used to live burned down. I sat in the parking lot with Gary Simpson and watched the flames while drinking coffee. Sometimes I’d have dreams about finding Francis in that ditch, but other times I’d dream about riding with her in the boat. Most of the time, I didn’t remember my dreams.


Two years later, I was out fishing with Gary. Rachel was getting married the next day. The groom, Stephan Dupont, worked for me. She was pregnant, and had left her live-in boyfriend not a month before. Gary wanted to get out of the house while his wife and her sisters were around. I’d taken the day off and we were catching a lot of walleye up in the river, by the dam. We fished until 7:00 and when we got close to town our cell phones found their signal again. They both beeped, indicating messages. I didn’t check mine until we’d loaded the boat. The first few were the usual, trucks were late, drivers were late, gas was running low. It was the last message that nearly stopped my heart.

“Hi Mel, this is Francis Beacon. I hope you don’t mind but I got your cell number from the lady at your shop. I just wanted to let you know that I was in town and I’d like to see you. Give me a call”, and she left her number. I went home and showered and drank a beer. I checked the message again to make sure I was hearing things right. So I called her. She sounded happy to hear from me and wanted to meet for a drink. I was out the door as soon as we hung up.

The tavern was nearly empty. The Blue Jays were playing on TV, and a couple of truckers were sitting at the bar drinking red-eyes. Francis was already sitting at a table when I arrived. She was alone, as best as I could tell. She smiled and waved as I walked over and sat down.

“Can I get you a beer?” she asked.

“Yeah, a Canadian, with a glass” I told her.

She’d grown her hair out again. She was wearing camouflage shorts and a white tee-shirt with sandals. She smelled nice. The small talk took awhile, parents, weather, the drive up. She was visiting her friend’s cabin for a bridal shower the next day. After another beer she started to loosen up, me too

“I just wanted to tell you Mel that I dreaded coming up here for this, but it’s nice to see you. I’ll never forget what you did for me that day. And I still remember the boat ride.”

“Yeah, I was just out fishing today. We caught a few. If you get the time we should go out…on the lake”, she smiled at my nervousness.

“Yeah, that’d be cool”, she was picking at the label on her beer bottle.

We drank one more each and then we left. She said she would give me a call about that boat ride and I turned my back to my car as she pulled out of the parking lot. I went home and didn’t sleep until the sun came up. The next day I almost drove my truck into the ditch, I was so tired. I didn’t hear from her again for six months when she sent me an invitation to her wedding in Toronto. I wrote her back and told her I couldn’t make it, what with work and all, but I sent her and her groom some stoneware as a present.

The next summer Jesse’s friends threw the party again. The location had changed this year, it was on McNeil Lake, the same lake that Don Primeau’s cabin sits on, his mother’s old cabin. Don needed help mending the dock and he invited me over, promising dinner that night. Jennifer acted glad to see me. After dinner Don and I sat on the newly mended-dock and fished. We weren’t catching much, but the beer was disappearing fast. We could hear the kids across the lake, the music, the drunken howls. We could see the bonfire and the shadows dancing around it to the throbbing rhythm of the DJ’s system. After midnight someone lit off fireworks on the beach. We could still hear the music and voices when we went to bed. I slept in Don’s spare room and headed back to town the next morning. That Monday as I was running errands I noticed kids around town with their new “Cabin Fever” t-shirts. Jesse Roush was paroled that winter.



© 2008 Craig M. Skinner