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A Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie story<\/em><\/p>\n

The little boy came gamboling up to me when I was just over the ridge. He was big for three, small for four, and cute by any measure. Brown hair, blue eyes and a smile as quiet as firecrackers.<\/p>\n

I was cutting across the park on my way to the library, and I’d come a little closer to the playground than I had wanted to. Unaccompanied adults have no business being at the playground. It spooks the parents, and it ought to. For myself, while I like kids well enough, I don’t much like what comes with them these days…<\/p>\n

“I’m Shotterman!” said the little boy. He struck a menacing pose. He was wearing little blue shorts and a black Mickey Mouse tee shirt. He had Spiderman sneakers on his tiny feet.<\/p>\n

“Hi, Shotterman,” I said. “What are you?”<\/p>\n

“Huh?”<\/p>\n

“What are your powers, Shotterman?”<\/p>\n

“Oh,” he said. “I can shoot.” He cocked his finger. “Pshew! Pshew pshew! Pshew!”<\/p>\n

“Shotterman!” I announced. “Strange visitor from another planet with an uncanny aim and accuracy. Shotterman! Able to compete for marksmanship prizes on five continents.”<\/p>\n

Shotterman laughed with delight, as I knew he would. This was entertainment he thoroughly understood.<\/p>\n

And here’s a little something I<\/i> understood: He doesn’t have a dad, not at home. Little boys don’t crave male attention when they’re getting enough of it. The nation is crawling with little boys looking for big boys to play little boy games, and I knew without being told that Shotterman was one of them.<\/p>\n

“Who are you?”<\/i> he asked.<\/p>\n

I knew what he meant. “Nothingman,” I said.<\/p>\n

“Nothingman?”<\/p>\n

“Nothingman! A vanishingly small amount of substance, barely here at all. Nothingman! A homeopathic quantity of humanity.”<\/p>\n

He looked at me as if he wasn’t quite sure if I was serious in my nonsense.<\/p>\n

“Hunter!” called a voice from the benches over by the swings. Shotterman blanched a little.<\/p>\n

“Hun<\/i>ter!”<\/p>\n

“Is that your name? Hunter?”<\/p>\n

“No, I’m Shotterman.”<\/p>\n

“Hunter Ryan Daniels! You get your butt over here and I mean this instant!”<\/i><\/p>\n

I winced. I can get enough of that stuff. “C’mon,” I said. “Let’s motivate.”<\/p>\n

We walked back over toward the playground equipment and Hunter went “Pshew!” at anything that Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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