Lies We All Believed

By Mike Ramon

A short story. A man's memories of his father when he goes home for the father's funeral.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mike Ramon
• Release date: Sep 14, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005030889

Mike Ramon

Born and bred in the Midwest.

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Lies We All Believed

Mike Ramon

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When I was eight, my dad told me that he was a secret agent. He claimed to work for the CIA, and that when he left on road trips for business he was really going on trips to assassinate terrorists and drug kingpins. Maybe he saw a tinge of doubt on my face (I had passed the age of reason, after all), so he showed me a gold badge stamped with the words U.S. GOVERNMENT on top and SECRET AGENT on the bottom, the words curling around within the badge’s border so that they almost met. I promised that I wouldn’t tell a soul. Naturally, I told every kid at school who would listen to me. On the drive home from a meeting between my folks and Principal Frawley – during which I’d been seated outside the door of Frawley’s office, straining in vain to overhear what the grown-ups were talking about – Mom laid into Dad, telling him that she couldn’t see why he’d thought it a good idea to fill an impressionable young mind with