Twin Souls

By Barry Rachin

Mavis Calhoun, who works the cash register at the Shop Rite Supermarket, is going to teach Harry Wong Smith the fine points of Rumi's mystical poetry along with a lesson in common decency.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Barry Rachin
• Release date: Aug 26, 2019
• ISBN: 9781458046277

Barry Rachin

About the AuthorBorn in Boston, Massachusetts, Barry Rachin spent several years stationed in Yokuska, Japan as a Navy medic caring for casualties during the Vietnam War. He has studied at the University of Jerusalem, lived on a kibbutz for a year and holds a degree in clinical counseling from Simmons College. A self-taught woodworker, he presently lives in Attleboro, Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters.

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Twin Souls

Barry Rachin

Published by Barry Rachin, 2019.

This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

TWIN SOULS

First edition. August 26, 2019.

Copyright © 2019 Barry Rachin.

ISBN: 978-1458046277

Written by Barry Rachin.

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Twin Souls | by | Barry Rachin

Twin Souls

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Barry Rachin

According to Mahatma Gandhi, Mavis Calhoun spoke breathlessly, society’s coming apart at the seams, collapsing under the weight of technology gone berserk."

Mavis and Harry Wong Smith were on ten-minute break, sipping tepid coffee in the Shop Rite Supermarket employee lounge. Twenty-nine year-old Mavis had relocated to Brandenburg, Massachusetts almost a year earlier to the day. She landed the cashier’s job in February. In his senior year of high school, Harry bagged groceries and stocked shelves. Mavis grew up in Knoxville, on the Tennessee River. Her father worked for a lumber firm, harvesting tulip-poplar, hickory, yellow pine, red and white oak. The summer before she moved East, Mavis and her new husband, Travis, traveled to the Blue Ridge Mountains and climbed Clingman’s Dome, at 6643 feet the highest peak in the state. Mountain laurel, redbud and irises rimmed the trail. Mavis saw five wild turkeys and a brood of mottled, brownish ruffed grouse in the bush. The adult male kept up an unearthly drumming sound with its wings trying to frighten the newlyweds away. These were the sort of things Mavis told Harry when he wasn’t running price checks on kiwi fruit or chasing down abandoned shopping carts in the supermarket parking lot.

Mavis took a quick sip of coffee Personal computers, quad speed CD-Roms, faxes, supersonic jets -

There were no personal computers with quad speed CD-Rom in Gandhi’s time, Harry