Storytellers and Other Liars

Storytellers and Other Liars

Thomas Alexander Gilmore

(My Heart Goes Ka-boom, Baby, Whenever She's Near)

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Michael Hatcher
Mar 03, 2026
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1157 County Road 209

September 27, 2025

Providence Flats, Alabama

5:48 p.m.

“Hey, baby. How ya doing?” The beginning of many a conversation with Rhonda Bishop, my girlfriend. (I’m fifty something-or-other and I still have a “girlfriend”?) Guess so. “Lady friend” sounds like we both need to have the preacher on speed dial for when the end comes.

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