The irony hit Guy. Eighteen years a nondescript player, becoming an old baseball card in front of the denizens' backward turned caps, squinting along with them in the afternoon suns, tuning out their cacophony of boos following strikeouts and errors, and superstitiously changing his uniform number to 6 every third year. The same nonplussed rookie afraid to walk on the white lines, Guy was about to leave an indelible mark on the game, the game sealed in his tobacco juiced veins, only to be replaced by a younger, faster, precocious number 6.
Bruce Harris' fiction has appeared in The First Line, elimae, BULL, Pine Tree Mysteries, and Short, Fast, and Deadly. He enjoys relaxing with a Marxman.
Bruce included this note with his submission. I thought it relevant:
A few months ago I read an interview (in elimae) where the author listed 6 words that should never be used in writing fiction (cacophony, indelible, precocious, nonplussed, denizens, and nondescript).
I used them all.
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Douglas Campbell
2/24/2010 05:40:28 am
Good for you, Bruce. It drives me bonkers when people make pronouncement like that, "Oh, writers must never do such and such," or "Oh, writers should always do so and so." In the service of telling a great story, writers should do anything and everything they need to do.
Great piece - baseball is so much like real life. That's why I love the game.
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