Café Merde

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One day my friend Monica came for coffee. She sat on a stool in my kitchen and her eyes went straight to the words on the blackboard next to the cooker.

“Café Shit.”

Her face creased in puzzlement.

I’d forgotten Monica was fluent in French. What was actually written on the blackboard was Café Merde. Around the name were…