L.R.D. Smokin’ Hoopers

Steve Benfey
8 min readJul 30, 2020
Old Color postcard of Richmond Indiana Main Street showing State Theater
Main Street, Richmond Indiana, from memory

“You one a them hoopers what smoke LRD ’n’ stuff?”
- Pickup driver somewhere in Wayne County, Indiana

“How, hi are you?”
- Ralph Siskind

The Good Duck sent Ralph to Richmond on a mission of mercy to rescue the lost souls of its dog-food-eating populace.

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Steve Benfey

How, hi are you? I’m a writer living in rural Japan. My writing expresses the spirit of living the way I do or did — in consensual reality and otherwise.