MagiClaw

By Rish Outfield

When Stewart's little brother Anthony spends his last two quarters to play a convenience store claw game, he is surprised that Anthony not only wins . . . but wins big.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Rish Outfield
• Release date: Dec 2, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310650031

Rish Outfield

Rish Outfield is a failed writer, failed actor, and pretty much failed human being. Still, he manages to get up in the morning/afternoon because of you, good sir or ma'am. Someday, he plans to thank you in person.Rish is a fan of Horror films, Eighties music, and the television work of Joss Whedon. He enjoys chasing after frogs, talking about comic book characters, and thinking about the Star Wars Trilogy. He is a voice actor and podcaster, and can be heard co-hosting the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine and That Gets My Goat podcasts, where he and Big Anklevich waste much of their time, hopefully entertainingly.He has been a writer of short stories all of his life, but has only recently begun to share his work with others. He once got a job because of his Sean Connery impersonation, but has lost two due to his Samuel L. Jackson impression.

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MagiClaw

Rish Outfield

Copyright 2014 by Rish Benjamin Outfield

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MagiClaw

Now that their mother was working full time again, it was up to Stewart to keep track of his little brother. Anthony was seven, which isn’t that much younger than fourteen, but to Stewart, it was an uncrossable gulf of age that provided only irritation and annoyance. Okay, and occasional affection, since Anthony just wanted to be around his big brother, do what he did, talk like he did, go where he went.

Stewart rode a skateboard, though, and Anthony rode a bike, and not nearly as fast. To see him pumping his little legs like the devil herself was behind him was amusing, however, and Stewart’s friends got a kick out of watching him try to keep up.

Then one afternoon, Stewart decided to ditch his little brother at the miniature golf course, and Anthony had been in tears, asking the employees for a phone to call his mommy . . . and Stewart was busted. His mother had given him such an angry, tearful tirade about responsibility, and child killers, and him being the man of the house now, that Stewart had nearly cried himself. With Mom working days, he was only not grounded if he was with his little brother, and that meant right next to his little brother. So, no more sneaking into construction sites, or breaking windows at the abandoned leather works. Now he had to go to the mall, or the water park,