By Bob Flaherty
Meet John Gullivan, age 13, captivated with the moles that dot so much of his physique. Meet his brother Gully, who cannot cease guffawing at them. Now meet the brothers ten years later, in the midst of the main ferocious snow fall a person can take into accout. Set in an Irish working-class suburb of Boston within the Sixties and Seventies, Puff facilities on a quest because the soon-to-be-orphaned brothers, posing as rescue body of workers, try to steer their dilapidated van via insurmountable snow, all to attain a bag of pot. Trapped of their personal ruse and compelled to behave the a part of the saviors they're pretending to be, the brothers run into an never-ending move of foes and hindrances: the law enforcement officials, their youth priest, a knife-wielding maniac, and the unwell all stand within the manner in their elusive excessive. A raucous caper, Puff is as hilarious because it is heartfelt and should resonate with young and old alike.
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The idea was that you’d start by taking the top Parade off the pile, pinching it between your thumb and forefinger, as you dipped over to the next pile, taking on a “Bridal Fashion,” then on to a “Lechmere Sales” and then a flyer and a flyer and a flyer and a flyer, as your left hand held open the maw of the main paper like a giant clam. FLOOP, your collection went in, that went to another pile, where Ward stuffed them into the comics section, and that pile went to Dad, who roped them into new bundles with a skill that bordered rodeo star.
You always have to bring death into it, don’t you? Okay, let’s go. ” We spit in our hands and went to work. With the man and I on either side of her and Gully holding onto her ruined feet, we got the wheezing, frightened old thing down the stairs, out to the street, into the van and onto the mildewed old couch in the time it takes to pee. My brother lost one of his armbands on the turn coming out of the hallway, but had no interest in retrieving it. “Drive,” he said. Ten Years Later • 25 What normally would have been a five-minute ride to the Crawley took nearly three times that in the heavy snow.
Which directly brought up the dilemma of the bathroom in the basement. There were no lights in the basement, just a toilet and a roll of toilet paper, and you had to feel your way around in the dark, well aware that other things—rats, spiders, beetles, and probably scorpions—were feeling their way around in the dark with you, waiting for you to make a mistake, to fall perhaps, at which point they’d move in and skeletonize you by the time the toilet quit flushing. The most courage either one of us could muster was to stand at the top of the stairs and urinate into the blackness.
