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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature
Issue 26: 1 Jan. 2025
Prose Poem: 92 words
By Kevin Browne

Niche Work

 

It’s a trick, I tell them. If you do it just right, you can take your leg apart in four pieces without ill effect and squeeze them through a small opening, then reassemble it. Everyone laughs. The granny in charge of the gang looks dubious and makes me demonstrate this skill. Afterward she seems impressed and so are her henchmen. I tell them I’m working on other body parts too. They might put me on retainer. This apparently has all kinds of potential applications for the business they are in.

 

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