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Tim Wooten

Tim Wooten has had a varied career with jobs as a longshoreman, a cook, a waiter, a bartender, and a part-time reporter for a daily newspaper. He has worked for a local affiliate of the Service Employees Union and has also taught creative writing workshops for the United Auto Workers in Michigan and the Labor Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.

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Autumn 1994 | Fiction

She came in late on a busy Friday evening. I wouldn't have paid much attention to her if she hadn't been blowing Gauloise smoke at me through sidelong, never-catch-me-looking-at-you kind of glances. I was pouring her Beam and Bud depth charges alternated with beer mugs full of soda water and lime.