Quarterlifers

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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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