I was in line at the store. Behind me, a little old white lady in a crochet hat reached up and tapped a finger on my back.
“I wish I was big like you,” she whispered when I turned around.
“Why would you wish that?”
“Because then if anyone messed with me, I could just beat them up,” she replied, smiling sweetly.
© 2017 Wyatt Doyle
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