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The Story Behind the Story

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Short Story Series No. 20

Richard Prosch
Aug 4
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I don’t know about your family, but my family had its own private cache of names; names that stood for specific people, names that we applied to whole generalities and types of folks. 

Buttinsky Jones was the obnoxious guy who cut you off in traffic, Stinky Carmichael was the kid who didn’t wash his hair. 

Fake names were especially useful in a small tow…

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