Cop Or Otherwise? By Bernie Suttle “Get into the car, Son. Hitchhiking is against the law in Pasadena.” He leaned over and opened the passenger door. I had to get through the town to get to the freeway entrance and hoped to get a ride with a car headed for LA on that same route.
Cat Burglars By Bernie Suttle “Dean Higgins has one but he says it doesn’t work all the way,” I told my fifth-grade friends. Kyle, the Alfalfa look-alike, who always wore cheap, scuffed, cowboy boots to remind us all that he had once ridden a horse, chipped in, “Nothing he has works all the way.”
Unforgettable By Bernie Suttle “How could he make a career out of that after such a disastrous start. Will he always remember his debut? We will. He spoke forty minutes. Presented clearly, all per lesson plan. Nobody can recall a word he said. We didn’t know if we belonged. It was a science, Physics in
Sex In The Supermarket By Bernie Suttle You want to get poked?” I asked Betty Pruett, a checker at Market Basket. She turned toward me from the register, smiled and said, “Not right now.” I had the melon poker in my hand. It was used to assure buyers the watermelons were ready to eat.
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Looking For Windmills By Bernie Suttle It seems that Cervantes had me in mind when he created Don Quixote. Looking at my life to date I see myself as Quixote’s personification. I have looked for quests that I could charge and apply my solutions whether needed or not. Nothing was too big or too
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A Better Way By Bernie Suttle “Tom”, Herb said, “Tell me once more about your face-off with the Alpine Gang. “Not again” “Yes, I think there’s a great story there, maybe even a homily. You were always the tough one. The one things happened to. Go ahead. You can tell your brother.” “Well, okay.
What Is War? By Bernie Suttle “Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date that will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.” Our family heard these words from President Roosevelt as we sat in front of the Philco at
Bent Twig By Bernie Suttle I heard the bullhorn. “Throw down your weapon, stand up, put your hands on top of your head.” Bruno remembered what his Dad always said, “Stupid. Stupid. As Stupid is, Stupid does. You’re going to school makes no sense. You’ll just be an educated idiot.” I was six-years old
Leverage By Bernie Suttle Brian Richardson was a well liked solid B student who played on the MAD High School “B-Basketball” team while holding a part-time, after-school job. Brian had fallen hard for his classmate, Diane Nichols. He couldn’t explain it. She was in his English class and he couldn’t take his eyes off
