/tags/bullies/Recent content in Bullies on Gromet's Plaza ArchiveHugoen-usSat, 18 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000/stories/2017/02/18/mountain-mistress/Sat, 18 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000/stories/2017/02/18/mountain-mistress/<p>I would have to thank my family for this one day.</p> <p>My parents had become convinced I was becoming weak, spoiled. Too much time in front of the TV or on the computer. I had it too good in their opinion. I needed to learn how to be a man, how to rough it like they had growing up. So they sent me to spend the summer with my aunt &amp; uncle Theo &amp; Gladys Rooney out in the sticks somewhere in West Virginia. God this was going to suck.</p>