The Junk Man's Son
Short fiction about the relationship between a scrap picker and his son, addiction, recovery, and growing up blue collar.
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I teach English as a second language and write fiction. I grew up a blue-collar kid on Long Island fishing and getting into mischief. As a teen, I picked scrap metal with my father to make a living, and I write stories based on it.
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