The Truth About Thurman: After Dinner Conversation, #11
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Synopsis - Two Americans are captured by a terrorist group who give the government a choice, pick one for us to let go free, or we kill them both.
After Dinner Conversation is a growing series of short stories across genres to draw out deeper discussions with friends and family. Each story is an accessible example of an abstract ethical or philosophical idea and is accompanied by suggested discussion questions.
Podcast discussions of this short story, and others, is available on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and Youtube.
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The Truth About Thurman - Jenean McBrearty
The Truth About Thurman
After Dinner Conversation Series
CAPTAIN THURMAN DRUMMED his fingers on the wooden bench, imagining a world with ashtrays and cigarette machines. He'd have smoked Chesterfield's because he had British relatives, but he wouldn't have won the Expeditionary Unit Triathlon if he’d mucked up his lungs. Health or cool? He’d made the right choice. The medal displayed in a Plexiglas cube on the mantle testified to that. But none of the women he’d tried to seduce over the years ever noticed the cube or his stamina.
Your medal belongs in a black velvet-lined jewelry case,
his mother told him. "You need to make a bigger splash, Gordon. What's special about a coin preserved in