In The Garden Of Eavesdropping

By Mary Fewko

IN THE GARDEN OF EAVESDROPPING is the story of two angels who have made a bet to see who'll be the first to proselytize some wandering atheist into praying. And while these holy hustlers have pitches completely improvised, the pain of the snowy city's locals is beginning to feel practically rehearsed.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mary Fewko
• Release date: Dec 15, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311700933

Mary Fewko

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IN THE GARDEN OF EAVESDROPPING

A short story written by Mike Fewko

This story is a work of fiction. The characters and events in this story are fictitious. Similarities to real people, alive or dead, are coincidental.

Copyright © 2014 by Mike Fewko

SMASHWORDS Edition 2015

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

IN THE GARDEN OF EAVESDROPPING was first published

in April 2014 by Canto Magazine, based in Rochester, New York;

featuring Emily Brasley as editor & Najia Zayed as creative director.

The adequate recluse wouldn’t know the underhanded people who sightsee the night beyond three in the morning...

Behold Polk Avenue: a snow-shrouded landscape of miscellany. Characters searching for love or employment, some for a malignant fun time and though crowded with bars, diners, pawnshops, rehab clinics, yoga centers, you’d not see them now due to the harsh winter.

I’m out of Marlboros, Ramiel said to Dumah. I don’t wanna taunt the 7/11 workers anymore, they appear sped up to the point of cardiac arrest.

Aren’t most of them on parole? Dumah blew out cigarette smoke. There wouldn’t be faint air from the breathless angels. Their human avatars did