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by Cyn Kitchen
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So, I'm in the store when this woman walks in with like, three or four kids and I think to myself, "Damn lady, you got enough kids," but then I forgot them because I've got business to take care of and I end up at the back of the store by the pop and chips and that lady's there with all them kids and they're being all noisy and stuff and I can't get close to what I want since them kids are in the way and that lady starts to get pissed at'em and she tells them to calm down and get out of the way but they just keep acting like a bunch of morons ignoring the lady and I sneak between them and grab a bag of Doritos and some Coke cause I want to get out of there, you know, and all of a sudden that lady starts going ballistic on them kids, screaming and yelling like nobody's watching but I'm standing right there and other people pop up too, probably the noise, and that lady's freaking out and it's embarrassing but I can't walk away, I just stand there and watch and all of a sudden, man, her head just freaking explodes and the next thing I hear is a voice on the intercom saying, "We need a mop in aisle 3."
Cyn Kitchen Cyn Kitchen is a lifer in Galesburg, IL. She's hoping to be paroled or at least extradited to a place with warmer winters before she dies. People ask her how she kept her sanity while raising four children. She hates to tell them she didn't. She writes because she's worthless at every other pursuit. Her BA in English came from Knox College, and her MFA in Writing is from Spalding University. Her short story, "How to Avoid Sex With a Man Who Weighs 300 Lbs. More than You" was short-listed for the Raymond Carver Short Story Award and subsequently appeared in Carve Magazine. Other work has appeared in New Southerner, Literary Mama, salon.com, sfwp.org, and is forthcoming in the anthology, "Bleeding On the Page: An Anthology of Women Writing About Menstruation."
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