Rick was a 22-years-old university Senior and stood 6′ 1″ tall, with blond hair, and blue eyes. He looked like the typical well tanned southern Cal. surfer, except he wasn’t in souther California. He was the captain and star player of an Upstate South Carolina university’s men’s volleyball team.Rick had indeed grown up playing volleyball
My New England Volleyball Cousin
The grandparents, parents, and cousins left this morning for late November Christmas shopping. I am 35, alone, in my highball sipping gambling loving grandparents’ New England Victorian house. The young afternoon sky is a shiny blue whale’s underbelly about to drop flurries. Then I hear the wood staircase squeak and shriek like a dilapidated tree