The Champion

On a makeshift dais that had been constructed at the front of the restaurant, a single room shack whose entirety could be seen from its entrance, set four square dining tables, placed side by side and covered with an immaculate, white, plastic table cloth. The ceiling fans, too few to matter and gilded with dust,…

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The Blessing

Richard B. was a brilliant child, a smart adolescent, and is a mediocre adult. His mother, a waitress, a pleasant, long-faced woman with unremitting cigarette breath whose intelligence has always been what Richard B.’s is today, birthed the boy, her only child, in a park sitting under an Oak tree. “When he was ready, he…

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