Wednesday, October 20, 2021

PARABLE NUMBER ELEVEN

One EMT was moved from the building where both were housed to the fire station. The other was sent home. The one who was moved went, knees trembling, stomach every kind of butterfly, worried about how the transition would be. Would people be nice? Mean? Were those words too broad to describe human behavior? The one who was sent him didn’t go there. He went to the fire station and lay in wait for the first one so that he could jump out and scream. He expected terror and then laughter but he knew he’d be fine with just the first.

©2020 Ben Greenman/Stupid Ideas

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