Always a Catch

Declan

I woke up smelling like a bucket of alcohol.

That was the first wrong thing. The second was the ceiling, wrong angle, wrong color, definitely not my hotel room and the third was the dead weight of my own skull when I tried to lift it off the pillow.

Geez! What the heck happened?

I peeled my eyes open. Empty bottles. A red plastic cup crushed flat under my elbow. My jersey, not the one I'd