Another excerpt from, “The Collected, Very, Very Short Stories of Pat Snow: Retail Worker”
Hope yall dig.
Training Day
There’s a mother shopping with her daughter, showing her the ropes. The little girl tears through the racks of clothes, flinging and slinging them across the floor, while the mother applauds with delight.
“Very good! Don’t worry, you will get better at this once you get a little older.”
The daughter stops after noticing a clearly disgruntle sales associate looking down at her.
“Ah,” the mother says to the daughter, “you will also learn more about them. You see dear, the two-legged, two-armed, two-eyed, two-eared, human-faced thing, is, in fact, not a human at all. They don’t eat what we eat, or drink what we drink. They don’t think like we think, or breathe the air we breathe. They don’t speak our language. Most importantly, if you cut them, they wont bleed. You got that? If you cut them, they wont bleed.”
The daughter looked confused by what her mother had just said, but trusting her words, continued to throw clothes on the floor.
2 responses so far ↓
1 candace // Jun 11, 2010 at 9:52 am
It took me a second, like who is she talking about? …slow, I know lol…she’s so wrong
I like your fiction Jason. It’s descriptive without being overly descriptive (if that makes sense), and the dialogue is TOO REAL.
2 Kristin (from the Riis) // Jun 16, 2010 at 1:31 am
You are so dope. That is all.
Leave a Comment