Sweltering winter train. Take a seat, nod to tough-old-guy seatmate. No response. Whatever — I’ll read.
Three stops in, he glances at my Kindle, flashes a grin somewhere between affable and homicidal, and says, “Hey, Magic Pad, this is me.”
Practicing my own Mona Lisa smile, I move aside.
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