A youngster came home from school with scraped knuckles and a torn shirt.

“Fighting again? I think your classmate Donnie is a bad influence on you. Have you been playing violent video games at his house?”

“No, I haven’t. Donnie won’t let me. First I have to win a fight.”

John H. Dromey’s short fiction has been published in Mystery Weekly Magazine and over one-hundred-fifty other venues.