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Once Again Perception Trumps Reality
Rattner didn’t know how they did it but he did know his neighbors had trained their cat to crap
on his lawn and not on their own. He figured they must have had a trainer come in while he was
at work. It didn’t matter that he politely asked them several times to keep their cat off
his property and when that didn’t work he began to catapult, with a shovel, their cat
crap back onto their lawn.
When nothing changed after a few weeks he began doing the same with his dog’s crap.
At the annual block party there was a constant crowd around a laptop set up on a card
table showing an endless loop from his neighbor’s webcam featuring Rattner flinging crap
onto their lawn--time after time after time.
No one was really surprised to see the For Sale sign in front of Rattner’s house the following week.
Paul Beckman is a real estate salesman, a writer, snorkeler, traveler and photographer.
He specializes in the short story, the short-short story, post-card , flash fiction and micro stories.
Some publishing credits: The Connecticut Review, The New Haven Review, Onthebus, Short Story Library, The
Writer's Voice, Playboy, 5 Trope, Other Voices, Dogmatika, Northeast Magazine, The Scruffy Dog Review, Parting
Gifts, Fiction Warehouse, Web Del Sol, Jewish Currents, Long Story Short, Tight, Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette,
Riverbabble, Exquisite Corpse, Collectedstories.Com, Opium, Clean Sheets, Thug Lit And Sugar Mule.
Email: Paul Beckman
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