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GARY CLIFTON: Knife Try

Out of cold blackness a hooded guy, kid maybe, waved a switchblade. “Gimme yer money, boy.”

“Got no money.” I dropped the newspaper bag and by dumb luck grappled the knife away. He got cut pretty good and ran off, howling.

I kept the knife and never saw him again.

Gary Clifton, forty years a cop has short fiction pieces published or pending on over twenty online sites.

PIs’ apartments are worthless, but this was mine.

The thug inside had broken my seal on the door. The tape was like my services: cheap but effective. I felt less fear than the tape, though.

I relieved my holster of its lopsidedness.

The doorknob was cold. Soon, he would be.

Charlie Dunn is a college student studying abroad in Japan. He also wrote Full Count.