Fucking Hipsters by Mandy Haynes

Fucking Hipsters by Mandy Haynes

(Dedicated to fellow East Nashvillians who mourn the loss of a great city...)

Frank ignores the young doctor and wonders if he might be having a heart attack and welcomes the idea. He has no control over the flood of tears that pours from his eyes, or the way the muscles contort and pinch in his face. The pain comes from deep in his stomach, forcing its way into his chest. It feels as if his ribs might break before the pressure rises up his neck and pushes its way out of his mouth.

“Fucking hipsters …” he says before another wail chokes off the rest of the sentence.

The young therapist’s eyebrows are the only things that move. She quickly brings them back down and adjusts her glasses. This is not what she expected, but she’s glad to hear his voice. She sits behind her poker face and waits for him to continue. Several minutes pass before she attempts to hand him the box of tissues. If he notices the tissues she offers, he ignores them. She pauses before deciding to put the box back on the table and starts to wonder if she heard him correctly. Hadn’t she just said the same thing this morning as she jogged past the new and so-called improved Dino’s? Fucking hipsters, she’d cursed under her breath as she ran past the litter of red plastic cups and cigarette butts left out on the sidewalk from last night’s crowd.

Fucking Hipsters is a short story that’s in the collection, Walking the Wrong Way Home. If you want to hear the rest of Frank’s story, you can read it now for free through Kindle Unlimited, or purchase it for ninety-nine cents.

"It may be fiction but it's all true. Mandy writes razor-sharp, down-to-the bone southern tales about total strangers that you've known your whole life. She knows us better than we know ourselves. This is the good stuff." Mike Henderson, Grammy award winning singer/songwriter, musician, and all around badass.

"From her mind come people who inspire and infuriate and inform. They'll make you ache and smile and sigh, all at the same time." Peter Cooper, award-winning journalist, author, singer/ songwriter, and musician.

Mandy Haynes spent hours on barstools and riding in vans listening to great stories from some of the best songwriters and storytellers in Nashville, Tennessee. After her son graduated college, she traded a stressful life as a pediatric cardiac sonographer for a happy one and now spends her time writing and enjoying life as much as she can. She recently with her three dogs and one turtle from Amelia Island to Semmes, Alabama into a barn at Good Fortune Farm Refuge where she helps author, Carolyn Haines take care of farm chores and rescues of all shapes and sizes with various medical issues and special needs. They are collaborating on a Feminist Thriller/ Suspense novel that mirrors their life on the farm - minus the body count.