The Rum Shop

"A man oughta be able to walk home drunk without some damn fool running him off the road, you know." The hub of life in the islands is the local rum shop, and though living in the Windward Islands in the Caribbean might be a little different than other places, maybe move at a slower place, the problems of life are pretty much the same as anywhere else. Still, it's a different kind of world. And here is a short story that peeks inside that world.