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Tom Speropulos

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2020

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Turf War?

Dear Diary,After a few months of being retired, I went back to work for a two week stint at one of my city’s public housing projects’ recreation centers in town. Their former recreation leader was a part-time DJ and had the kids do little other than listen to hip hop music and street dancing. The children were used to no structure, or discipline. A few of the older kids who knew me from before were sympathetic to my plight and commented, "Longest two weeks ever, huh, Mr. Tom?" Yup! For example: one evening, while on the asphalt basketball co...

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Lift Off!

Submitted to Contest #36

 June 29, 1973, Dear Diary,The only thing my roommate Jim and I ever shared in common that summer in Florida was our desire to watch a space launch in person. When he told me about the Skylab II launch coming up the following day, I thought this was it! A once in a lifetime chance, and I wasn't about to pass it up. Transplanted from Arizona, the only type of launch I had ever witnessed was the occasional drunk cowboy who wandered into the wrong end of a cattle prod. I wanted to get to the Cape, as the locals called it, in plen...

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