“I am recent Russian immigrant. Have not yet learned good English.”

“Well, sir, we can help you with the written part.”

“God bless U.S.A.”

“First you must take the eyesight test,” the instructor pointed to a chart which read: C-X-W-O-C-R-K. “Can you read it?”

“Read it? That is my cousin.”

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