The Gym Lion, a Short-Story

Acknowledgments: for the shots of whiskey and beer I’ve had before working out and not after; for Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata the playful part that made the latter parts of this story funnier; and for my dad’s girlfriend Stephanie and her son Floyd, who I made laugh a lot when I read aloud to him the opening of the first draft when I wrote it at their h…