Rusty green 1978 Dodge rumbling down Bennett.
Sneakers slapping concourse concrete.
Up, and up, and up.
Peeking through rapidly passing entry ways.
Bases loaded.
We sit.
Ellis Burks drives an inside fastball clear out of McCoy.
Stand up.
“Never show up an inning too late,” Pop says, chuckling and cheering.

Matty Joe Afonso has been passionate about writing since Mrs. Chisholm’s second grade class and her weekly short story challenges. In college, he studied writing under published poet Randy Blasing. His greatest inspiration came later in life from a familiar source: award-winning flash-fiction author Bob Thurber, Matty Joe’s childhood neighbor and father of his best friend, Sarah Kate. After reading Thurber’s Paperboy, Matty Joe was inspired to one day publish his own work. Matty Joe was raised and lives to this day in North Attleboro, Massachusetts with his girlfriend Corey and their combined six children, two dogs, and one fat cat.