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    The Sympathetic Squirrel
    The Sympathetic Squirrel
    The Sympathetic Squirrel
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    The Sympathetic Squirrel

    By Barry Rachin

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    While eating lunch on a park bench, Leslie Carter watches a man recounts his life story to a gray squirrel. The rodent is a sympathetic listener, and there is more than a sliver of truth concealed in the lunatic's obsessive rants.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarry Rachin
    Release dateSep 25, 2018
    ISBN9780463887004
    The Sympathetic Squirrel
    Author

    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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      The Sympathetic Squirrel - Barry Rachin

      The Sympathetic Squirrel

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      Barry Rachin

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      Barry Rachin on Smashwords

      Copyright 2018

      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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      The Sympathetic Squirrel

      During her lunch break Leslie Carter visited the park where two hundred feet away a middle-aged man was talking to a gray squirrel with a cropped ear. The squirrel sat up alertly on its haunches, arms outstretched, and every so often the man tossed him a peanut from a paper bag. The rodent efficiently stripped away the outer shell and munched on the succulent kernel as the lunatic blathered away incoherently.

      Leslie settled back comfortably on her own bench. The woman had nothing to fear.

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