Skills Open Eyes, A Basil Rosa Story Published by Livina Press

Editor Laci Felker published Skills Open Eyes in Issue #3 of Livina Press.

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Below is a short excerpt from Skills Open Eyes:

    I’d expected ridicule for offering to pay Andre Facteau in Mexican beer, yet he arrived to my folks’ house at the time we’d agreed on, driving a green Ford F1 pick-up. Andre looked comfortable in camel-colored boots, stovepipe jeans, a denim jacket over a grey hoodie. His sandy hair was cut short, arms limp at his sides. A loose‐ ness about him. As we got to work, using my folks’ driveway as our garage, he asked, “You ever think about getting married?” 

    Three years. Thirty. It’s anyone’s guess how long our delusions last before we’re shaken out of them. I’d just fallen out with Patty, raised on Burncoat Street in nearby Worcester. Like me, she was from a big Catholic tribe. She needed a break from my moods, but I was still in her good book. She was still in mine. It was complicated....