The Sort
ShortStory 6,520 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources
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"My son can’t think of the word “spoon.” It’s there, at the tip of his tongue. The waitress looks at him with a patient smile. She can see he’s fidgeting and getting hot. A boy his age would typically know how to ask. “Could I please have another... ” But it stops. It’s been a while since we’ve driven through a town and used our words."
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