Barry W. North is a sixty-eight-year-old retired refrigeration mechanic. Since his retirement in 2007, he has won the 2010 A. E. Coppard Prize for Fiction and Honorable Mention in the 2011 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards. His published books are Along the Highway and Terminally Human. www.barrynorth.org
Is longevity an accomplishment, or does sticking around for the marathon mean a deal with the devil?
By Barry W. North© 2014 Blunderbuss Magazine. All rights reserved.