Contributor: D. Robert Grixti
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It’s been a hard day. I throw my rucksack to the ground in relief and take a seat next to the fire. A particularly large rat is roasting in the flames, but it’s still a ways from being done, so I reach for the yellowed paperback laying on top of my sleeping bag and begin perusing it in the flickering light.
“That book again?”
Across the campfire, Rowan looks at me curiously, taking a break from watching our dinner cook.
“Seriously Jess, what’s with it? You’ve read it at least twenty times by now,” he says.
“Do you see anything else to do around here?” I reply coolly, glaring at him and then returning to my well-read book. “I don’t think cinemas or amusement parks make very good business these days, do they?”
“Whatever,” Rowan says in exasperation, going back to watching the rat revolve on its spit,...
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D. Robert Grixti
