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    Presidential Soup: By Zack Mitchell
    Presidential Soup: By Zack Mitchell
    Presidential Soup: By Zack Mitchell
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    Presidential Soup: By Zack Mitchell

    By Zack Mitchell

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    Much to his regret, Gordon McKenzie eats canned soup for dinner.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMitchell Mendlow
    Release dateJul 13, 2013
    ISBN9781301092284
    Presidential Soup: By Zack Mitchell

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      Presidential Soup - Zack Mitchell

      PRESIDENTIAL SOUP

      A Short Story By: Zack Mitchell

      Mitchell Mendlow

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      Copyright 2013 Zack Mitchell & Danny Mendlow

      DBA: Mitchell Mendlow

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      Everyone has something in their kitchen they would eat last in the event of starvation. For Gordon McKenzie, it was soup. He had only bought four cans of it in his life. Lurking deep in the top shelf of the most inaccessible cupboard, dust-covered and potentially expired, were the same four cans. It was assumed he would never eat them. Yet something was different tonight.

      Gordo arrived home from work and looked in the fridge. Nothing much. He picked up the phone book and flipped through the take-out menus. Then he delved into the boring depths of the dry-storage cupboard. Probably nothing more than some jello packets, iced tea powder, maybe pasta (with no sauce or butter in the fridge, nor any oil), pancake mix (and not the kind that calls only for water, it called for milk and eggs, both of which were also not in the fridge, not to mention any sort of syrups or jams), maybe a sprouted potato or two and finally a bottle of honey, its ancient run-off crusted the surrounding surface.

      There was nothing in the cupboard

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