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The Homeless Man Approaches Me With a Knife

I hear the gutteral voice behind me

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I have my back to him, facing four other people.

“Are you going to keep fucking with me?” he growled.

The brain slows for a moment whenever we aren’t sure what we heard. I hear what he says, but I can’t decipher…