At one point, when quite young, I was also keen on the Beach Boys. Growing up, most of their early albums were lined up somewhere near the family turntable, and I can remember going through what must have been an annoying phase of putting on “I Get Around” over and over. I’m the youngest in my family, the youngest of five. I have four considerably older sisters. It was one of these who was responsible for all the Beach Boys vinyl and was also quite possibly their biggest fan – in Toronto, anyway. So when I heard one evening that they were out on the club’s patio having dinner I did something I’d never done before – or since ...
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JOE DAVIES’ writing has appeared in the Dublin Review, eFiction India, PRISM international, Grain, the Missouri Review, Planet: The Welsh Internationalist, and previously in Queen’s Quarterly. He lives in Peterborough, Ontario, and aspires to no other claim to fame.
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