Flash Epistle Number Thirteen

Mike Essig
1 min readJan 22, 2018
Coilhouse

You are lately feeling crushed by birthdays which stalk you like ghostly bounty hunters tracking you down to confront you with the dread question: What’s happening, baby? Dread because in your deep heart you know the answer is, not so much. How to avoid the grinding down of habit, routine, and sad sameness? Years come and years go and you feel ever more that you are fishing a dry river for departed rainbow and brook trout. You know the…

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Mike Essig

Honorary Schizophrenic. Recent refugee. Displaced person. Old white male. Confidant of cassowaries.