The Old Man and the Pea

Ed Newman
3 min readNov 19, 2018

Category: Short Story Monday / Parody

This was my entry in an Imitation Hemingway short story competition.
The rules were simple: a set length, entertaining parody, and a reference to Harry’s.

The Old Man and the Pea

He was an old man who shopped alone in downtown Los Angeles and he had gone eighty-four days without remembering…

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Ed Newman

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