Story Corner

Stories from
a life lived.

Defining moments, skydiving stories, family pieces, working-class Americana, and wisdom fiction. Bruce's life supplies the raw scenes. The stories use those scenes to teach something larger.

Defining Moments

Courage, risk,
and getting back up.

Courage

The Day I Stood Up — and the Day I Got Knocked Down

Courage and humility

Two lessons in one story. Standing up for someone as a boy. Learning that courage without humility becomes something else entirely.

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Skydiving

The Biker Who Said No

Fear, danger, and old drop-zone culture

A biker who bragged that jumping was nothing froze on the step, said no, and got sent off when the pilot dipped the wing. What looked like danger became something else.

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Youth

The Quarry Kids

Risk, youth, and the edge

Jumping off cliffs, peer pressure, reckless youth. The quarry as a symbol of danger and freedom — and what it teaches about the choices we make before we know we're making them.

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Work

The Salt and Pepper Floor

Work ethic and finishing properly

A first-job story about taking pride in small things. The lesson that how you finish matters as much as how you start.

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Family & Place

Where the writing
comes from.

Family

Flying on Cass Avenue

Fatherhood and childhood magic

A joyful father-child story about the bump in the road where Dad made the car fly. Childhood magic hidden inside an ordinary drive.

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Legacy

Six Wheels and a Dream

Father, work, and dignity

A tribute to Bruce's father through the lens of his dump truck. Working-class dignity, provision, and what children actually remember.

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Americana

The Silver Frost

Drive-in culture and vanished Americana

Roller-skating carhop waitresses, drive-in culture, cars, neon, and memory. A world that existed and then didn't.

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Childhood

The Red Bull

Childhood imagination and adult mystery

A dark neighbourhood bar, adult mystery, childhood imagination, and the strange power of forbidden spaces.

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Childhood

The Murphy Bed and the Laundry Chute

Working-class magic

A celebration of the small wonders and ingenuity of working-class life. The things that seemed ordinary and turned out to be extraordinary.

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Legacy

The Shelf He Left Behind

Legacy and what gets passed on

An older man writes one useful page at a time and leaves his family a shelf rather than a speech. What we choose to pass on and what we let fade.

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