Pole Beans
By Barry Rachin
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Freda Mullet, who could have been voted 'least likely to succeed' in her high school graduating class, is marrying one of the most illegible bachelor. The woman couldn't string two sentences back to back without suffering a hernia. So how exactly did that come to pass?
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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Pole Beans
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Barry Rachin
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Pole Beans
Who died? That was the question fifty-three year-old Hank Rosenblatt asked each time the phone rang after ten o’clock at night. Reach a certain age and unforeseen calamities assaulted you with frightening regularity. Heart attacks, strokes, diabetic ketoacidosis, senile dementia – take your pick from a potpourri of age-related physical mayhem. Hank glanced at the clock, which read eleven-thirty. In the kitchen he could hear his wife Mindy, chatting in pinched and vaguely unsettled monotones. Ten minutes passed before she hung up and returned to the bedroom. That was my brother, Sid.
Yeah?
Hank sat up, eyeing his wife uncertainly.
Put your clothes on. You’re going on a short trip.
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