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Opposite him, Joe “Rip Dawg” Merton considered the threat and snarled back.
A lunge, a blow to the solar plexus, and an epiphany: “I am a bug,” murmured Rip Dawg, as he crumbled serenely to the mat.
A 55 Fiction submission to Bethel's Crossings literary magazine, March 16, 2010.