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Mirsky\u2019s Flight<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mirsky called his wife from a pay phone at the airport. He hadn\u2019t used one in years and was surprised at the fifty cents it cost. \u201cHell\u201d, he thought, \u201cIt seems like yesterday they went to a dime.\u201d At his age, (fifty-two) yesterday to Mirsky could\u2019ve been two years or fifteen years.<\/p>\n Elaine wasn\u2019t home or was on the phone so he left a message to his own voice who said to leave one and whoever was calling would be called back promptly and thanks for calling. He told Elaine that on the way to work something was gnawing at him and when he listened to ten of his eighteen messages and saw that he had several dozen emails waiting to be returned he realized what it was.<\/p>\n I felt an itch to get away for a few days he told their answering machine and I\u2019m at the airport about to scratch it. I\u2019ll be home shortly, after I clear the cobwebs, he went on, and can cope better, but right now I\u2019m about to board a plane. I left my cell phone at work and will see you soon. Love ya, he ended with.<\/p>\n Mirsky slept all the way to Toronto while the detective he hired took up his surveillance of Elaine to find out who she\u2019d been cheating with.<\/p>\n When Mirsky returned he got more than an earful from two people.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Paul Beckman<\/strong> is a real estate salesman & writer of short fiction. Sometimes his fiction inadvertently shows up in his real estate ads and vice versa.\u00a0 He has been published in Conneticut Review, Onthebus, Playboy, 5 Trope, Soundzine, Litro, Web del Sol, Exquisite Corpse, Opium<\/em> and Connotation Pres<\/em>s.\u00a0 This <\/a>is his website.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mirsky\u2019s Flight Mirsky called his wife from a pay phone at the airport. He hadn\u2019t used one in years and was surprised at the fifty cents it cost. \u201cHell\u201d, he thought, \u201cIt seems like yesterday they went to a dime.\u201d At his age, (fifty-two) yesterday to Mirsky could\u2019ve been two years or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3083"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3087,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3083\/revisions\/3087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}