LeBeef and Rochambeau, walking along the bayou, found two bombs.

“Rochambeau, we’d best take these to the high sheriff,” said LeBeef.

“What if one go off, LeBeef?”

“Rochambeau, sometimes you are so dumb as dirt.”

“What ‘chu mean?”

“Listen fool, one goes off, we don’t tell ’em we found two.”

Gary Clifton, forty years a cop, has over sixty short fiction pieces published or pending with online sites.  He has an M.S. from Abilene Christian University.