Flash! Fiction 3 by Peter McMillan - HTML preview
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"On the savannah, the lion outruns and slaughters"
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"That's it!" declares the exasperated teacher pushing the eject but-ton. "I'm sorry class, but I just can't get past this point. I don't see anything, but there must be a scratch or something," she explains, inspecting the DVD with her thick bifocal lenses then turning to the class. "We'll end a few minutes early today," she announces setting off a great clatter of chairs and desks. "Don't forget your homework for tomorrow," she adds hurriedly, by now speaking to the back of the crush squeezing its way through the door.
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Martin is an ordinary eight-year-old kid. He doesn't wear glasses.
He dresses normally nothing from the thrift store and none of that faux-hood clothing. His father just got a job in Toronto. It is mid-January, and he hasn't made any friends yet.
Walking home from school, he takes a short cut through the market district and runs into a gang of six toughs who beat him long enough to get warm, dumping him in a snow bank behind a dumpster in an alley.
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The next day Martin is prepared. As expected six black leather jackets pile into the alley, from the front and from behind.
"Think you're a pretty tough kid, eh?" challenges the tallest and the apparent leader.