Slater Garcia

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“Home Coming” by Slater Garcia

I must have lost track of time. Has it been three months already? It can’t be happening again. Oh God, why does this always happen?With bony trembling hands and a dry gullet, part-time grocery clerk, Taro tucked an impatient customer’s eggs away into a plastic bag. He could feel the customer’s glare, which was hidden only by his awning of tangled black hair dangling carelessly over his brow. Taro knew he was packing at a snail’s pace; there was a line of irritable customers waiting to buy their groceries. 

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Just another anxious monkey who thinks if he bangs on a keyboard long enough he might spell out a sentence in a Shakespeare play.