328-word post, or “The Crosswalk”
Dillinger Nards had always hated his name. “It’s bad enough our last name is Nards, but why Dillinger?” he’d asked his mother once, after a particularly bad day of teasing after school. “Why’d you name me after an assassin?” “Bank robber,” his mother had corrected him. “And he was only accused of homicide because he … Read more