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    Hummus
    Hummus
    Hummus
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    Hummus

    By Barry Rachin

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    Seventeen-year-old Sonny Gossage is infatuated with Naomi Shamir, the Israeli woman who lives down the street. He wants romance; all she can offer is a plate of hummus and occaisional babysitting job.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarry Rachin
    Release dateOct 20, 2011
    ISBN9781465841643
    Hummus
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    Barry Rachin

    About the AuthorBorn in Boston, Massachusetts, Barry Rachin spent several years stationed in Yokuska, Japan as a Navy medic caring for casualties during the Vietnam War. He has studied at the University of Jerusalem, lived on a kibbutz for a year and holds a degree in clinical counseling from Simmons College. A self-taught woodworker, he presently lives in Attleboro, Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters.

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      Hummus - Barry Rachin

      Hummus

      by

      Barry Rachin

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

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      Barry Rachin on Smashwords

      Hummus

      Copyright © 2011 by Barry Rachin

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      This short story represents a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

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      Hummus

      Naomi Shamir is on the phone. Sonny Gossage’s mother was standing on the second floor landing just outside her son’s closed bedroom door. She wants to speak to you.

      Sonny was thumbing through a back issue of National Geographic, ogling pictures of an annual West African fertility ritual. In an open field, teenage virgins were parading in front of the tribal leader. Decked out in leopard skin robes, the grizzled ruler sat on a rickety, straight-backed chair. The debilitated king, who appeared to be in his eighties, smiled regally as over a hundred bare-chested woman passed in review. The girls wore necklaces of gold, silver, ivory and shells at their throat and sported similar finery on their wrists and ankles. Everyone, especially the geriatric ruler, seemed to be having a splendid time.

      Don’t know anybody by that name, the boy replied as he scanned the column of dark-skinned beauties waiting to present their physical assets.

      The Israeli woman whose husband ran off last summer, Mrs. Gossage clarified. "She lives with her daughter in that fancy schmancy, split-level house with the green shutters.

      Sonny felt his heart begin to race out of control. Throwing the magazine aside, he rose from the bed and made his way to the telephone. Hello? There was a brief pause. Yes, that was my flyer. After a moment,

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