Strange how things turn out

Posted by Christopher Cocca ⋅ January 27, 2013 ⋅ Leave a Comment

Reblogged from AM, Then FM:

They were older guys who liked hassling younger kids for no apparent reason. Bullies, I guess.

You really couldn't complain about them. To whom? Their parents? No way. Your parents? They'd just tell you to stay away from the guy. You just had to get a little tougher and perhaps a little smarter.

Maybe all they wanted to do was get into your head.

About Christopher Cocca

Christopher Cocca is a Pennsylvania-based writer and community organizer. His fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in Brevity, elimae, Pindeldyboz, Geez Magazine, Creative Nonfiction, Generate, and elsewhere. He earned a Master of Divinity degree from Yale Divinity School in 2005 and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing (fiction) from The New School in 2011. He helps lead the Air Quality Partnership of Lehigh Valley - Berks and is the Associate for Urban Mission at FPC Allentown. Opinions expressed on-line are solely his. Quotation does not equal endorsement, except for when it does.

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