Q. You worked as a hotel bartender in the Pacific Northwest for years. What would you say makes bartenders especially good at picking up on their customers’ tics, subtleties, and indiscretions? A. I would say it’s a prerequisite as you learn how to do the job well. So much of service work is about listening […]
Author: Barrett Bowlin
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Creative Nonfiction Issue #81
Artwork by Sean Bw Parker
Pugilism 2020-2022 A week after my father’s 78th birthday, he has a stroke, and then another, and then it takes him six months to die. A little over a year later, my mother’s two bichons frisé dead-leg her from behind, and she falls down and dies from what the coroner calls “cardiopulmonary failure,” and that’s […]