“What will they say?”
“I don’t know,” the cashier said. “I don’t make up the headlines.”
“But if you did make up the headlines,” Henrik said, “what would you write?”
The cashier thought for a while and then said, “Man Cheats Fate and Escapes Death Three Times.”
“But what would the newspaper say about me?” Henrik asked.
The cashier thought long and hard.
“It would say that you’re one of a kind.”
Henrik Nordmark smiled when he heard the man’s words. He took the last piece of dirty plum and shoved it in his mouth. Henrik ground his incisors into everything it had to offer. One of a kind? he thought. That sounds anything but ordinary.
About the Author
Christopher Meades lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. In 2009, his short story “The Walking Lady” won the Toyon Fiction Prize at Humboldt State University. Christopher’s work has also appeared in journals across Canada, the United States and the UK. One day he hopes to escape his cubicle and live by the beach. His website is www.ChristopherMeades.com. The Three Fates of Henrik Nordmark is his first novel.
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