Townie (noun): an individual who has grown up and spent most of their life on Cape Cod. "What the fuck are you looking at?" Kenny yelled, blaring on the horn of his beat-up station wagon as a white, pristine, clean BMW X5 pulled out in front of him, cutting him off at the airport rotary. Kenny flipped the driver the bird before proceeding to ride his ass.
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Ashley Lima
I think about writing more than I write, but call myself a writer as opposed to a thinker.
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Become a paid subscriber to get access.Great voice this is told in, really engaging. And starting with the argument brings us right into how stressed out a lot of people living there feel, and why people might feel like they need dope to slow down. (and all the shouting reminded me a bit of bill burr with an east coast accent) The ending leaves a lot of questions in our mind about Terry and what was really going on. You also highlight the rich/poor gap well. If you ever expand this into a novel/novella you def have enough material and characters here for many chapters, and the opioid epidemic is also a huge dark force affecting so many people and communities negatively and something important to write about..
Not sure how I missed you posting this, but here I am reading it now 😆 This is fabulous! You have such a great voice for this narrator. It leaves me desperately wanting to read more ❤️
This felt like home. It all felt so familiar that I felt like you were writing about people I used to know. I am from Cape Cod, born and raised in a small town called Buzzards Bay, graduated from Bourne High school and went to kindergarten on Otis Air Force base. Not much changes there. I left when I was 18 and haven’t really looked back, well, not too much anyway. Great story!
Reads like The Outsiders! Very cool!
I started reading this and got pulled right in. I felt like a was reading a chapter of a full blown storybook! At the risk of sounding dumb, who is Cindy?
Amazing revision! I love this. I wouldn’t change a thing. Definitely gets me invested in the story with just the right amount of information, but also enough mystery for me to want more chapters. You certainly showed us the class differences with the way Terry’s death was handled (or rather wasn’t properly handled). Bravo.