For the Story Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Suzette Richards
Date: 6/14/25
Five items in my shopping cart. Pull into the line for fifteen items or less. One customer ahead of me. Middle-aged woman with twenty items arguing with the clerk. I have an appointment in half an hour. “Lady, you have too many items!” If looks could kill, she’d be dead.
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