Heavy Set
October, 1964
The woman stepped to the kitchen window and looked out. There in the twilight yard a man stood surrounded by bar bells and dumbbells and dark iron weights of all kinds and slung jump ropes and elastic and coiled-spring exercisers. He wore a sweat suit and tennis shoes and said nothing to anyone as he simply stood in the darkening world and did not know she watched.This was her son, and people called him Heavy Set.Heavy Set squeezed the little bunched, coiled springs in his big fists. They were l...
