Angel Butts

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“Fish Out of Water” by Angel Butts

Submitted to Contest #140

I drank my first beer on a barstool at a crowded dive in the East Village called Downtown Beirut in the late fall of 1992. I hated beer—still do—but my roommate and I had pooled our cash and bought a pitcher of their cheapest draught when we discovered that was all we had enough money for. As I nursed from my pint glass, I ran a cost/benefit analysis of suffering the lukewarm piss vs. not getting a buzz. Conclusion: I was way too uncomfortable to sit there stone sober, and I was way too stubborn to leave. Bottoms up. I’d chosen a college in...

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