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Escape Pod has my story Smooth Talking up as their latest podcast story. Listen to me in your car, on your ipod!

Roger sighed, shifted his position on the stump, and then turned back away from Marcus.

“What I’m trying to do, Marcus, is talk that tree into moving.”

Marcus didn’t say anything. He stood behind someone he thought he once knew and tried to figure what to say next. Not a man normally tied for words, Marcus found himself in the very surreal position of being speechless.

Filed under the topic My Writing: Short Fiction on December 14th 2006 at 4:29 pm. You can subscribe to the RSS feed for this entry to keep track of comments. You can also use to trackback.

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