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    The Firstborn Son
    The Firstborn Son
    The Firstborn Son
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    The Firstborn Son

    By Barry Rachin

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    Seventy-nine year-old Morris Weinstein has been searching fruitlessly for an apprentice woodworker to join his woodworking business. What he hadn’t bargained for was seventeen year-old Salina Smithers, a Negro girl who is just finishing high school and wouldn’t know a table saw from a table wine.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarry Rachin
    Release dateMay 5, 2024
    ISBN9798224201884
    The Firstborn Son
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    Barry Rachin

    Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Barry Rachin spent several years stationed in Yokuska, Japan as a Navy medic caring for casualties during the Vietnam War. He has studied at the University of Jerusalem, lived on a kibbutz for a year and holds a degree in clinical counseling from Simmons College. A self-taught woodworker, he presently lives in Attleboro, Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters. 

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      The Firstborn Son - Barry Rachin

      The First-born Son

      by

      Barry Rachin

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

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      Barry Rachin on Smashwords

      Copyright © 2024

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      These short stories represents a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

      The First-born Son

      Shortly before noon two black girls approached Morris Weinstein’s booth at the holiday craft fair. The prettier of the two stood with her head crooked to one side staring at a dark walnut jewelry box. Her mouth assuming a pinched expression, the hazel eyes narrowed to tiny slits.

      What you lookin’ at? The other girl was short with a broad fleshy nose and a surly edge to both her tone and features. All this guy’s crap is ridiculously overpriced. Intent that Morris be made aware of her opinion, she didn’t bother lowering her voice.

      When there was no immediate response, she added, I’m gonna check out the jewelry. The girl promptly wandered off.

      The crass remark didn’t bother Morris in the least. He sold several cherry dovetail boxes, to a woman who was giving them as gifts – one to a niece graduating college, the other as a wedding present. A burled, black walnut men’s valet was bought a half hour later

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