Niles Reddick – Big City Lit

Rotarian on Vacation

Mar 27, 2023Niles ReddickSummer 2020, Summer 2020 FictionFiction, Niles Reddick

by Niles Reddick for Jerry and Ruth Ann Jimmy lived and breathed Rotary in Augusta, Georgia. That’s how he’d met his wife, Virginia. She was a Miss Georgia contestant, and once a year they paraded the young ladies through the club, partly to increase ticket sales to the beauty pageant among the wealthiest men in

Rodeo Drive

Mar 9, 2023Niles ReddickSummer 2022, Summer 2022 FictionFiction, Niles Reddick

by Niles Reddick Among the G-Wagons, Ferraris, and Rolls Royce convertibles, we parked our rented Ford Escape and walked with tourists and the rich and famous shoppers. My wife pronounced it “Ro-day-o” while I pronounced it “Ro-dee-o” because I was from the rural Midwest and had gone to rodeos my entire life. My pronunciation annoyed