Flash! Fiction 2 by Peter McMillan - HTML preview
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Second day
Humming "Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to work we go!" the new guy greets us on his second day on the beat. It’s a funny tune for the morning rush to the office. Actually, it’s very funny, because you’re caught between chuckling and wanting to throttle the guy who is mocking you on your way to work.
As I look over towards the hummer, something in his eyes reminds me of that homeless guy I met twenty-odd years ago in front of the Museum of Natural History in Washington. He claimed to have been a psychoanalyst who had been blacklisted during the early
'70s. He said that he rarely had regrets, but that when he did he exorcised them by shouting through the fence on 1600 Pennsylva-nia Avenue. Imagining that this new guy may have a similar story, I drop a coin in his coffee cup.