Bruce Cameron

The Great Hoodwinki

When I was 13 years old, I was a professional escape artist known as “The Great Hoodwinki,” except that no one actually knew me as that and I wasn’t professional.

I thought that people would admire the clever play on words, since “Hoodwink” means “to fool” and “the Great Hoodwinki” would remind the same people of “the Great Houdini,” though who these “people” were supposed to be I had never really defined. Probably the local news anchor, a woman I had such a crush on that when her show came on the television, I couldn’t bear to watch.

News Anchor: You’re the Great Hoodwinki...