“I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. I–” As spoken by Eric Garner.

Frederick K. Foote, Jr. was born in Sacramento, California and educated in Vienna, Virginia and northern California. He started writing short stories and poetry in 2013.

He has published over one-hundred stories, and poems including literary, science fiction, fables and horror genres and a collection of his short stories, For the Sake of Soul was published in October 2015 by Blue Nile Press.

Another collection of short stories, Crossroads Encounter, was published on May 5, 2016, by Choose the Sword Press.

To see a list of Frederick’s publications go to: https://fkfoote.wordpress.com/

This ten word story was typed on a manual Brother typewriter c. 1970’s. Let’s call him Baby Brother.