Deli Fight

Jerry Landry
The Reckless Muse
Published in
4 min readApr 19, 2024

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When a brotherly fight goes too far, one brother must forgive the other and perform an emergency tracheotomy with a greasy pen tube.

Two pastrami sandwiches stacked high on a deli counter.
Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash

Baby dill relish splattered across my face like buck shot. I cleared the Dijon mustard from my eyes in time to see my brother, in his loading phase, about to unload a clamped handful of sauerkraut on the same speedy trajectory as the baby dill relish.

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