Bryan Buffkin
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Bryan Buffkin is a high school English teacher, a football and wrestling coach, and an aspiring author from the beautiful state of South Carolina. His writing focuses on humorous observational musings and inspirational fiction.
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WARNING: This story contains elements regarding suicide. I step off the edge. This has been in my head for a while now. I got this job five weeks ago, second-shift security for a downtown bank building. Seventeen floors, mostly law firms and accounting firms, with a large bank on the ground floor and lots of small business offices in between. I knew, on orientation day, when the first-shift officer was training me, that I would be taking this final step eventually. He showed me the top floor suite, the area where the building engineers had their offices and the building held storage rental spaces and cages for some of the bigger firms in the building. He showed me the important equipment, the various systems, and then the staircase. The secret staircase that only the engineers had access to. The staircase that led to the rooftop.
By Bryan Buffkin3 years ago in Fiction
A Clear Line of Sight
“Such a disappointment,” Davy whispered to himself as he stepped off of the gangplank and onto the drifting dock. He wore an itchy 3-piece navy lounge suit, the first time he’d worn it in months. He wrapped himself tighter in the tan trench coat, as the chill in the air roared through the potent north-westerly wind coming off the English Channel. He turned and looked up and high, pulling the brim of the bowler hat down to take the edge off the sun rising to his left. “All that work. All that time.”
By Bryan Buffkin3 years ago in Fiction
