Mr. Robertson glared at me. Beads of sweat rolled off of his shaved head. Some of them ran over the prison tats that decorated his temples. The arms of the swastika rippled as he clenched and unclenched his jaw. He wanted to argue with me. He wanted to challenge the statement I had just made. […]
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I got on my knees and leaned forward in my seat to get a better view. The teacher, a visitor from the high school, dropped the flaming sheet of notebook paper into the milk bottle and then placed the hardboiled egg on top. The paper flared briefly and then went out. But the egg slowly,
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Yes, I could have ignored you just like I did on the other days. But you were so insistent about shaking your anti-abortion sign at me while I was trying to negotiate the turn without splashing you or hitting the pothole. And why did you drag your 10-year-old son out into the cold rainy weather
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“So, Mr. Parent, what was your best birthday ever?” My boss looked at me and waited. His query was part of a new meeting protocol to encourage team building. Every meeting, he would ask a question designed to reveal something about ourselves to the rest of the team. I mumbled something about a ½ birthday
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It was the last day of school and most of the students had left. Hans, the janitor, motioned for me to follow him. He had a smile on his face and was very animated in his gestures. One of the few survivors of the Wehrmacht’s ill fated drive into Russia as well as the Korean
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The television reporter stuck his microphone inside the driver’s side window of the Cadillac. The driver, a blue haired woman in her eighties, was quite agitated. She sat in a line of cars that was three blocks long. In fact, all but one of the four gas stations located on each corner had lines that
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