Don't Tell Mom: Charlie Deming the Shootist
Memoirs
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El Paso. Desert at the end of the street. Two boys with more powder than sense.
Charlie Deming is the neighbor who put a dart in a kid’s backside, invented sand skiing behind a Studebaker dune buggy, and once tried to shoot a fly off his own hand. He is also one of only two people who ever shot the author.
What follows is not a sermon. It is gunpowder in the air, an angry mama on the warpath, a coach left gasping in the heat, and a carpet tack that stayed in a boy’s hand for four years.
These are the years that taught a West Texas storyteller how trouble gets made, how it gets told, and why some friendships still smell like sulfur.
Charlie Deming the Shootist
From the collection
JE Warr
If you ever had a friend who could ruin a Saturday and make it a legend, this one’s for you.