\u201cEd, look at that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stan and Ed were at AL’S DINER, side-by-side at the linoleum counter. Stan pointed with his spoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIs that a fly in my soup?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both studied the chipped bowl and the small thing squirming in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSeems more like\u2026 An ant, Stan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWith wings?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSome ants have them. Is that the chicken soup?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNo, clam chowder\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was hard to tell at AL’S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cClam, huh?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They had stopped eating. Ed decided against dipping his fingers in the bowl to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI’m pretty sure it’s an ant, Stan\u2026 Haven’t you noticed how the flies around here seem to avoid Al’s chowder?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEd, look at that.\u201d Stan and Ed were at AL’S DINER, side-by-side at the linoleum counter. Stan pointed with his spoon. \u201cIs that a fly in my soup?\u201d Both studied the chipped bowl and the small thing squirming in it. \u201cSeems more like\u2026 An ant, Stan.\u201d \u201cWith wings?\u201d \u201cSome ants have them. Is that the … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-Yk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3741,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740\/revisions\/3741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
David Sydney is a physician. He writes fiction in and out of the EHR (Electronic Health Record).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"