Former Local Man Has Moved On

NEW YORK

Spiritual will most likely never move back to the Clifton neighborhood of Cincinnati, he claimed Sunday.

“I’ve moved on,” Spiritual said over the phone. “I’ve got a wife and a new daughter, quit calling me,” he said.

Spiritual, 32, moved out of Clifton in the spring of 2003, ( Read more... )

            Pete Limpelli buffed the side of his left winged tip shoe with a washcloth from the hotel he was staying at. The T.V. was on, the old kind of hotel T.V. on a heavy metal pole with a brown painted metal “X” for feet. The pole was pocked with small rust patches, and the “X”, if you looked close enough, was specked with years of sad grime ( Read more... )

            Over the loud speaker Carmine heard a tinny and saddened voice announcing a bus bound for Dayton, Lima, Findlay, Toledo, Detroit, Flint, Saginaw, Bay City, and Sioux St. Marie.

Small trickles of travelers shuffled over to a cueing area labeled ‘Bay 16’. There was a family. A mom, and two little girls. One of the little girls ( Read more... )

We were somewhere around the seventh fairway on the edge of the woods when I realized the absurdity of disc golf. Perhaps on purpose, I had thrown my disc into a tangle of shrubbery and thicket. I was out for a day on the links with my astute golf partner, John Spencer.

“We used to get stoned on that bench down there,” stated Spencer, 25, ( Read more... )