Through the Candyman’s Yellow Smile. Runner-Up in Dads Are No Joke Challenge. Top Story - June 2022.
“Just push it a little further,” my grandfather tells me, “Until the shift reaches the letter D.”
“Ok,” I tell him, my little awkward fingers wrapped around the contours of the car’s automatic stick shift, its cracked and dried leather scratching and clawing the smooth grooves in my fingers.
