Tag: swimming pool

• Diving Sticks and Other Recollections of Public Pools

  I once cracked open a diving stick and emptied the sand from it for no good reason. I walk past the fence of the public pool and am hit with a burning sensation within the caverns of my nostrils from the day I first jumped into deep water without holding my nose. Instinct exhales the…

  Dan Metzger

  August 10, 2016

  Fiction, Gallimaufry

  blind, childhood, children, creative writing, diving, memory, old lady, pool, public pool, summer, swimming, swimming pool

• Chlorine and Sea Spray

  A four-star hotel had its foundation near where the Pacific laps the mainland with a ravenous host of frothy tongues. Two skinny hoods skated past on splintered boards with rusted bearings that squealed, hungry for replacement or grease whatever remedy would silence their pangs. Their hunger was osmosed through the feet of their riders. The…

  Dan Metzger

  July 12, 2014

  Fiction, Short Story

  california, creative writing, Fiction, gin, hotel, hunger, kids, martini, pool, santa monica, skateboard, squatting, swimming, swimming pool, youth