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Fiction

The Smart Shoppers

Joe R.R. Angelitis overhears a heated political discussion in aisle fifty-one.

Harley Fuentes fingered the price tag of a concrete frog in aisle fifty-one of the Great Garden Super Store, then switched her attention to a gang of little men with long beards and red cone hats. The sign read ‘Trolls’, but Harley knew the genial characters in pointy hats were gnomes. Harley smiled. Gnomes, trolls, leprechauns – it was all campy fun; but what blockhead didn’t know that gnomes were friendly caretakers of the forest while trolls were the ugly, treacherous enemies of gnomes? She rummaged in her handbag for a sharpie. Having found the marker, she crossed out the word ‘Trolls’, and wrote ‘GNOMES’.

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