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Flash Friday — Day 5: What It Costs
FLASH FRIDAY — DAY 5: WHAT IT COSTS
Greed isn’t always spectacular. Sometimes it’s domestic. Sometimes it’s private. In Secret, appetite becomes a transaction — and someone else carries the bill.
“He’s 6 foot 2 and weighs 150 tops, but he’s constantly eating. He can clear a buffet table and be looking for more. That’s how I got so fat. He ate all the food, and I gained all the weight.”
So says his wife. She’s built of loose parts, like sand bags and tires heaped in a sack. She’s jolly to strangers and especially children, but she smells like a bakery and her teeth sweat with hunger. He shops for her groceries three times a day.
This story is part of Flash Friday — Day 5: What It Costs.
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He’s got change in his pocket. He darts for a candy bar. He’ll have it gone before starting the car.
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James Reed has appeared in such journals as Illuminations, Raritan, Stand Magazine, and Bat City Review, and among other honors he holds a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
