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The Baton
Biff Mitchell
www.echelonpress.com, $1 PDF download, 54 pages, ISBN: 1590802624
reviewed by Barry Hunter

Do you ever get ticked off at the inconsiderate person who will sit and talk on the cell phone and ignore the person they are with? How about the joker that sticks gum under the theatre seat? Or even the guy that hocks a luggie in the middle of the food court?

That’s what happens to the narrator of this short inexpensive download and he decides to do something about it. About once a month, he finds someone that ticks him off and he makes sure that they don’t do it again. But by the end of the book, he decides he needs some help and he needs to pass THE BATON.

Biff Mitchell has written another satisfying short tale that makes you look at life a little differently than you did before you started reading. There’s a touch of Joe Lansdale in this one and in his previous SMOKE BREAK. Give him a try, after all, a dollar won’t go far but it can buy you some entertainment.

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