Jeff Stover

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“Survival” by Jeff Stover

Submitted to Contest #70

“We don’t need him, Jerry. Just shoot,” I said. My response was too quick, too insistent. Jerry leaned back from the scope to look at me. “You don’t need me, either,” he countered. I laughed into his simple steel face of sincerity and quickly deflected. “Of course I do. I can’t shoot that thing.” I motioned to the iron lance of precision Jerry cradled as he lay on the bed, aimed out of a second-story window. A grin broke through the steel, and he said, “Sure you can.” Jerry returned his attention to the mass of forms waiting for us at the...

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Denver-Area Writer and Poet.