Tangents Stories

Somersault of the Sole

Somersault of the Sole by Chet Hovatter We aren’t poor. Let's be clear on that. I don’t go to bed hungry. Well, except when I call my mom a bitch or something worse. I go to bed hungry a few times. Those may also be the nights we are having canned salmon and creamed corn for dinner. Sometimes I plan my assholery well ahead of the actual event to avoid even more terrible things. So … we are not poor. What we are is just hanging in there. The result of this is, when I need something, I get