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Genre: Historical Fiction
Word Count: 100
THREE STEPS AND A HOP
Ettore patted Jerry’s head. “How’s it going small fry?”
Twelve-year-old Jerry squared his shoulders, stretched to his full four-foot-three-inches, glaring up at his six-foot-tall eighteen-year-old brother. “Who you calling ‘small fry’?”
The youngest of eleven siblings, he’d always be the shortest.
Over the years his lack of height served him well as an actor and a stuntman. His hand and footprints appear in front of the famous Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
Puffing on his cigar, eighty-year-old Jerry Maren reminisced about his part in The Wizard of Oz. “Great times. That mangy mutt made better money than us Munchkins did.”
Rochelle Wisoff-Fields-Addicted to Purple 