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To celebrate tomorrow’s Boston Book Festival, today’s Story of the Day comes from the “One City One Story” initiative, a project meant to encourage folks around Boston to read the same short story and create a literary community involving this shared reading experience. And, of course, this story is offered to readers free of charge.

A project after my own heart, and one in keeping with the spirit of Story of the Day. Enjoy this story, and if you’re in the Boston-area, stop by and visit the woman behind the rockin’ creative writing blog, TrainWrite.

• from “The Smile on Happy Chang’s Face”:

“I’m getting pretty buff,” he would tell me, proudly rubbing his pecs or biceps. “Wish I’d been built like this when I was younger.”

Fuck you, I invariably thought, but I always said something polite, like, “Keep it up,” or “I gotta start working out myself.”