Patrick Hueller

Patrick Hueller received his MFA from the University of Minnesota. His fiction has been published in scads of awesome journals—including After Dinner Conversation, The Under Review, and MudRoom—and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His collection of stories, tentatively titled Fake Tattoos, is on the way (Cornerstone Press, 2027). He’s against instant replay in sports, but for it in life.

Toddler

Unlike the others, Greg hadn’t been able to wait until the first game was over to crack open a beer. After two months of sitting in those bleachers, watching through the backstop as his girlfriend Kim’s team played weekly double headers, he needed the beer just to get through the next inning, the next batter, the next pitch. Lately, he’d begun to experience this desperation as anger, even fury, and he couldn’t account for the sheer quantity of it.
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