Minnow
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James E. McTeer II. Minnow
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For my parents, Thomas and Kathleen McTeer
They took turns telling stories around a small fire in their hideout. The slanting scrap-metal roof was rusted with enough holes to chimney the smoke, but the inside still swirled with a dim haze. Curtains of gray Spanish moss hung down across each open end, keeping out the early morning light.
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Minnow looked down at his shoes. He had a dollar. For medicine and a soda. But if the medicine was less, he could skip the soda and his mother wouldn't be mad, and it would be the same, really.
He dug the billfold out and flung it open, spilling the dollar onto the bar. The man laughed and clapped one hand over the bill and dragged it across the wood until it dropped off the edge into his other hand. He took two quarters from a pocket on his apron and put them on the wood. They rang dully, and one spun in a circle before it lay flat.
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