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Gerald So is Fiction Editor for The Thrilling Detective Web Site. He also writes fiction, poetry, and reviews appearing in print and online. Visit his blog at http://geraldso.blogspot.com.

Four Minutes by Gerald So

I stopped breathing

for four minutes at

four hours old,

cutting oxygen to my brain

and sapping strength from

half my body:

not so much I’d never walk

or run or write, but enough

so I couldn’t catch the kids

who called me “retard”

and bloody them

until they stopped.