He was generous, that’s what everyone said. He just passed away.
He was a Weber, lived three doors down from us. There’s never been a shortage of Webers around here.
Halloween, he’d pass out quarters. Quarters would get you into a movie back then.
Harold. That was his first name.
Victor Kreuiter lives, reads, and writes in the Midwest. His stories have appeared in Bewildering Stories, Halfway Down The Stairs, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Literally Stories, Tough, Del Sol SFF Review, The Windhover, Crimeucopia’s 2024 “Let Me Tell You About” anthology, and other online and print publications. His story, “Miller and Bell,” originally published in the August, 2022, issue of Mystery, was selected to appear in The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of 2023.
A very nice poem. In my older days, a quarter was like a Spanish Doubloon. It would get me into 2 movies with leftovers for Jujubees.