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Dale Bridges

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Dale Bridges is a fiction writer and freelance journalist living in Austin, TX. His writing has been published in more than twenty magazines, newspapers, journals, and websites. He has received multiple awards from the Society of Professional Journalists for his feature writing, narrative nonfiction, and cultural criticism. One of his essays was selected for inclusion in Sundress Publications' Best of the Net 2012 anthology, and his short-story collection, Justice, Inc., will be published by Monkey Puzzle Press in 2014. To read more of his work, go to dalebridges.org.
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Everybody Cut Loose

No matter which of these stories I told, I would always end with the line about how my father was so strict he wouldn’t let me watch movies, listen to rock music, or go to dances. Nine times out of ten, the girl’s eyes would widen and she would say something like, “Oh my God! Your life was just like Footloose!”
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