Sherman Zahd

By Jon Sindell

"Sherman Zahd" is an antiwar satire set in San Francisco schools in the early days of the Iraq War. The story is loosely based on Sheherezade. The humor is closely based on George Bush and the like. The story has previously appeared in Mobius, Write Side Up, and Pulse. The author appreciates the opportunity to expand the story's reach by furnishing a free ebook edition to kind readers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jon Sindell
• Release date: Jun 11, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476212173

Jon Sindell

Jon Sindell writes fiction in San Francisco and reads his work publicly throughout the Bay Area. He is a personal tutor in English and history, he was a dot-com editor and lawyer. The author of the baseball (and more) novel The Mighty Roman cried at six when the Dodgers blew the pennant, found strength on the mound at the age of eleven, rashly quit the baseball team at fifteen, and was reborn as a ballplayer in his thirties. He lives with his wife and near fledglings, and spends non-writing time hiking the Northern California coast, hugging redwoods, growing greens, and watching way too much baseball. He encourages readers to connect with him at Jon Sindell Fiction – where lots of his fiction may be viewed -- or on Facebook.

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Sherman Zahd

By Jon Sindell

Copyright by Jon Sindell

Sherman Zahd the story has appeared in the magazines Mobius, Write Side Up, and Pulse. Sherman Zahd the boy has had a hard life.

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Sherman Zahd

"Oh, god, Sherman’s odd

Crazy little Sherman Zahd!"

It was inevitable, perhaps, kids being kids, at all times in all places–even enlightened times such as these, in ultra-tolerant places such as San Francisco–that Sherman Zahd would be known to his fourth grade classmates as Sherman’s Odd by virtue of his name alone, without regard to any Middle Eastern oddness in his appearance or demeanor, just as surely as Uriah Peckinpaugh III would be dubbed You Pee despite a total lack of evidence that his bladder control was at all deficient, and Mary Wong would be known as Very Wrong despite the fact that she rarely volunteered in class, and was very rarely wrong when she did.