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Caleb Monroe

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Flash Fiction Friday: Mind Over Matter
 Posted: 2008/10/03 15:37
MIND OVER MATTER

Hansel was sixty-eight when he decided he was tired of being pushed around. He was a victim of the meanest bully ever, The Universe, and at three-sixteen on a Friday afternoon he decided he wasn’t going to take it anymore. He walked right out his back door, across the yard, and straight up to a fist-sized rock against a twig that thought itself a pine tree. There he stood: his hands by his side, his house slippers on his feet and his open work shirt showing his paunch in his fading t-shirt.

“I’m through,” he said. “I’m not playing along any more. Just you versus me, buddy.” He glared at the rock. The rock remained unfazed.
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