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Fiction - Short Stories
A story of a family escaping the turmoil of the war and racial and political strife.


El Gringo
They looked like refugees running through the Albany train station trying to catch the midnight to Chicago. Dan charged ahead of his family, carrying two suitcases and a shopping bag, and moved at lightening speed. He ran through the station, his tall thin frame weaving in and out of wandering late-night stragglers, and careening off of corner posts. Pieces of clothing stuck out of the bulging suitcases, scraped and battered and strained at the hinges with the leather-covered
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