Newsletter 48: The Terror of “Alligator”

I’ve decided to start putting some of the best newsletter essays here on Medium, so more people can read them. You’re still better off just subscribing. This one’s from April 2017, about a prank my dad played on me when I was a kid involving the movie “Alligator.” I haven’t liked pranks or alligators since.

We were one of the first families back out in the country of Mattoon, Illinois to get a…