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The Partial Population of a Very Small Town


by Jeffrey S. Callico


Patty Hybell, 51, accountant; Walter LaMoore, 37, driver; Jeremy Bingman, 6, student; Helena Wickler, 49, dental hygienist; Freddie Yarbrough Jr., 22, moocher; Freddie Yarbrough Sr., 56; angry; Geraldine Bachman, 78, recovering; Rhonda Wellingham, 16, missing; Dr. Terry F. Brown, 40, veterinarian; Bob Roberts, 67, terminal; Mabry Auberville IV, 9, addicted to gaming; Nancy Weathers, 46, gardener; Jacob Stewart Riley, 15 months, fine so far; Barbara Shaffer, 32, house cleaner; James “Jimmy” Faddington, 98, spry but incontinent; Narjeel Saleeba, 30, scared of death but not of dying; Branson Furman, 61, hapless, in his own estimation; Harold Grier, 61, focused; Edina Riley, 23, waitress; Jaybel Varmuth, 39, reticent; Tracy, Stacy, and Macy Treeberry, 15, always together but not on speaking terms; Marsha Howard, 71, ‘all smiles'; Mark Bingman, 27, screwy; Sally Wellingham, 38, trying to cope; Mabry Auberville and Mabry Auberville II, deceased; Mabry Auberville III, 30, spent; Frank and Joan Treeberry, 44 and 41 respectively, alive.

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