Chris OBrien

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“Catfishing” by Chris OBrien

Submitted to Contest #99

I suppose everyone’s daddy looms large in his life: standing all tall and strong, nearly blocking out the sun, the moon, or the stars. So it was with my pa. I remember his favorite shirt for the weekends, a blue plaid thing with the subtlest of red-ribbon lines running through every third or fourth checker column. It was short-sleeved and sometimes, when it got cold, he wore a long-sleeved white or black t-shirt under it. In the really cold he wore a CPO jacket over it of a non-committal, mud-colored plaid not the same size or weft as the bl...

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