Tag: Al Ortolani

After Our Three Year Old Learns the Realtor Won’t Rent to Families with Children by Al Ortolani

After Our Three Year Old Learns the Realtor Won’t Rent to Families with Children I buy her a donut, the last glaze twist in the shop at two in the afternoon. We sit in the window and watch the traffic on Main Street. I drink coffee. She sips chocolate milk through a straw. All these …

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Digging Ditches by Al Ortolani

Digging Ditches My father found me a job digging foundations at the low-income housing development north of town. He knew the boss. In fact, he knew everyone who commanded a platoon of shovels and picks. I was hired without much vetting, a favor to my father who feared his son needed a shovel to become …

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