Another Day, Another Destiny

Stepfather

The Hunger Games

<p class="stanza" style="text-align: justify;">I met a man Thursday whose brain once kept moving at high speed after his skull had come to an abrupt stop. When we met, he was pushing a shopping cart with empty soda cans and wine bottles, which he figured would get him six bucks at the depot. Seventy years old, he’d slipped on the ice three times already that morning because people on his route hadn’t cleared their sidewalks. He couldn’t decide between blueberry or cherry danish at Sally Café so I bought both, and we stepped into rare winter sunshine as he told the story of how he’d come to be where he was. When he got to the part about being in a coma for six weeks in Atlanta, a Southern drawl introduced itself. After the coma, he spent another 540 days in hospital. They were using him for drug experiments by then, wanted to dissect him for research. His sister, a lawyer in the fancy part of town, finally got him out of there and sued the state of Georgia for 5.6 million dollars. A cheque will be ready in February he said, signed by Obama before he leaves office; a cheque the new guy can’t take away from me. That’s great I said, February’s not very far away. Just around the corner, he said back. It’s just around the corner.</p>
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Straight Shooter

Old Man Watching Dunkirk

What Gets Us Out of Bed in the Morning

<p style="text-align: justify;">Official records of the events of December 7, 2053, remain maligno-encrypted. All my attempts to trace the origin of reproductive plasma stored in the iCrypt of the Proto-Matriarch stall at googleterminus. But this morning, (praise-be-to-the-Supreme-GMO), an anonymous researcher at an untraceable IP sanctuary uploaded these fragments.</p>
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