Quarterlifers

Quarterlifers
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A fifteen-year-old boy engages in a battle of wills against an enormous rock. A pair of wanna-be cowboys, desperate to prove their Old West cred, accept a wager that has deeply dire consequences. A teen and his grandfather bond in an unorthodox way with surprising results. A junior college dropout delivering pizzas for a living meets the two strangest customers who've ever ordered pizza – but one of them might want something more sinister from him than just a hot meal. And a confused university graduate faces the toughest test of his life: asking out an attractive bank teller even though it seems as if his self-confidence – and career plans – were left behind in college.Five stories. All different…yet all somehow connected. And for those of you who don't know how to use a can opener – you've come to the right place. KYLE FITZGERALD lives in Sherman Oaks, California, with a temperamental laptop computer on which he types out stories that just might manage to be both weird and relate-able (although he believes that weird IS relate-able). When not wrestling with words, he works at an advertising agency, enjoys the Great Outdoors, and looks for things that make him laugh. This is his first book.

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Kyle Fitzgerald. Quarterlifers

Foreword

The Rock

The Legend of Buck’s Basin

Grandpa Smoked and He Did Inhale

The Customer Is Always Wrong

Quarterlifers (Part 1)

Quarterlifers (Part 2)

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-Woody Allen

So there I was, alone in my apartment on a Thursday night, a college sophomore, staring at the unopened can of chicken noodle soup on my kitchen counter. I wasn’t sick, but it was the last edible item remaining on the premises, because I certainly couldn’t stomach heating up my roommate’s month-old leftover pasta that I was convinced was mutating into an alien life-form. A nocturnal jaunt down to the supermarket proved out of the question, for the rain outside sounded downright apocalyptic, and that ten-page term paper due the next day needed my immediate love and support. Hence, chicken noodle soup would have to be the fuel that’d get me through a long and sleepless night of staring at blank Word documents and pulling my hair out.

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Why not? Kids like him, who act tough to hide the fact that they really want to pee their pants, are easy targets for the Rock. It’s why there are so few good kid actors; most of us can tell when they’re pretending. Even inanimate objects, apparently. The Rock had given up picking on me, so it had found a new victim. The Rock had given up! And I hadn’t even realized it!

For the first time in my young life, the fear that accompanied increases in elevation began to fade away. The butterflies in my innards settled to flapping around lazily. My adrenaline gland started to drift back to sleep, tossing and turning every once in a while but leaving the rest of my body undisturbed.

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