Bits and Pieces

By Bob Brackin

Bits and Pieces is a collection of writings, some older, some newer, that the author has brought together in this, his 18th self-published book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Mar 27, 2014
• ISBN: 9781491871126

Bob Brackin

Bob Brackin lives in Orlando, Florida. He’s a 1975 graduate of the University of Central Florida, with a B.A. degree in English.

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Bits

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BOB BRACKIN

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© 2014 Bob Brackin. All rights reserved.

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Published by AuthorHouse   03/24/2014

ISBN: 978-1-4918-7063-1 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4918-7112-6 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2014904602

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Contents

A House in the Field

The Passing of Mickey Mantle

The Beatles and the Orlando Sentinel

The Boxer

Hilde

A Small Town

In the Airport

The Writer

The Clerk

Firecrackers Over New York City

The Last Go Around

One Shot Deal

Does speed kill commerce?

The Two Babies

La La Land

Oh, Boy…

Why

The Dream

About the Author

Also by Bob Brackin:

Anthology—A Collection of Three Short Books

Odds and Ends

Another Book

Winter Poems

Paperback

Toofer

Stuff

More Stuff

Reader

Vaudeville Blues—A Novel

Follow-up

Further Down the Road

From Here On

Hodgepodge

Scenes From the Kitchen Table

Nonsense and Other Stories

Short and Sweets

A House in the Field

There was a time when all this mattered, a time when I remembered my great-grandmother’s old house in the middle of a field.

It was in rural lower Alabama, and my family went there once.

It sat by itself in the field, rundown, and the inside was as if people still lived there, but it had been vacant for years.

We were told we could take one item, and I wanted the double-barreled shotgun, but for some reason, was told I couldn’t have it by someone. I ended up taking an old wall-mounted, hand-crank coffee grinder.

We were in the house courtesy of a man who was the descendant of the man who had married my great-grandmother. They had lived in the house I was now in.

It was a small, wood-frame house, with one or two bedrooms, and I remember one had a feather bed, which I’d never seen, but knew for some reason that it was the bed of those times.

Earlier we had been at