Alex Larson

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“Foreigners, and Other Cannon Fodder” by Alex Larson

Submitted to Contest #131

“My, my; ain’t he a strange-looking fella,” my Gran whispered to Ma. I looked too, and he seemed pretty normal to me, ‘cept for the dark hair and the way he walked. “Curious gait, don’t he,” Ma agreed with Gran. It’s not that he walked or looked exceptionally quizzically, but the only thing to feed into the rumor mill and gossip well this week was a two-headed snake young Sam Bailey caught playing near Miller’s Pond, and that wasn’t much for the ladies to chew on. Here in Albion, we have a few different means of currency and trade. First, mo...

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Unpublished author working on several muses. Day job keeps my typewriter in ink and my brain churning out ideas, but someday would like to support myself on the written word alone. Hail from the wilds of the American Icebox.