I Got A Job At A Drugstore  

I got a job at a drugstore.

Times were tough. I was lucky to get this job, the senior pharmacist said. He had me mixing up medications the very first hour.

I got them all wrong. Even the heart medications.

What’s wrong with you? What did they teach you in school? the senior pharmacist said right after he fired me that very same afternoon. He was so mad he said it right in front of an old lady whose medication I’d messed up. She was mad too. Her lips were hot and puckering like a fish she was so mad.

There’s nothing wrong me, I thought on the way out the door. And who told any of them I went to school?

Max Sheridan is the author of Dillo (Shotgun Honey Press, 2018) and a few other stories. He lives and writes in Nicosia, Cyprus.