Fiction by Jenean McBrearty
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Olga turned towards Haymarket Street, where she could trade Sergei’s boots for a portion of meat jelly – made from belts, or suitcases, anything leather. Today, just today, I will survive and cast a silver shell, and engrave Sergei’s name on it, another one for Mama, and one for Papa, and seven more. Somewhere a soldier will fire them into the head of a Totenkopf helmet that will be a headstone for my family.
Jenean McBrearty is a graduate of San Diego State University and former community college instructor who taught political science and sociology at military installations and Des Moines Area Community College. Credits: reviewer of social science and history books for Choice Magazine (2006-2008); paid columnist for the Lexington Herald-Leader (2006); recipient of the EKU English department’s Award for Graduate Nonfiction (2011); published in Teaching for Success, Static Movement, Main Street Rag 2011 Anthology – Altered States, Wherever It Pleases, including the Anthology: Rustlings, and bioStories, Cobalt Review, Black Lantern, and Relief, among others.