The Sneak Freaky

Fishermen made a good living in Sneads Ferry. Sure, it was a lot of hard work, but it paid off. And as long as people ate seafood, he’d always have a job. Alfred Simpson was proud of his son for choosing to be part of the family business, for serving his country and for putting money down on a house. It might have been fifty years old, with a creaky stairway and a roof that leaked, but it was his, or at least on the way to being his.