That’s me, age seven or eight, as the Hulk. I was strong enough to pick that table up over my head, but the adults freaked out and wouldn’t take the photo.
Have a safe and happy Halloween all- maybe share some candy bars with the neighbors out on your soggy porch. We’re gonna bring hot coffee to some family without power. This storm was scary enough.

Thomas Pluck writes unflinching fiction with heart. His stories have appeared in Big Pulp, Needle, Stupefying Stories, The Utne Reader Burnt Bridge, [PANK] magazine, Crime Factory, Spinetingler, Beat to a Pulp, McSweeney's Internet Tendency and elsewhere. He edits the Lost Children charity anthologies to benefit PROTECT: The National Association to Protect Children, and writes 


"The Story of O Street" in Oh Sandy: An Anthology of Humor for a Serious Cause
"Kamikaze Death Burgers at the Ghost Town Cafe" in Feeding Kate
"Acapulcolypse" in Nightfalls: Notes from the End of the World
"The Rock Ridge Ringer" in Hills of Fire: Bare-Knuckle Yarns of Appalachia
"Train" in Shotgun Honey Presents: Both Barrels
"Garbage Man" in Beat to a Pulp: Superhero



The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology (Amazon Kindle & Paperback)
You are the cutest Hulk ever (except for Mark Ruffalo).
oh yeah, well shuffle off to Ruffalo why don’t ya…
That’s an awesome old pic, Tom!
Thanks David… I haven’t changed much!
Glad you’re okay, Thomas, and that sure is one picture. Very cute! U coulda been in pichas!