SHOWANDTELL

short fiction by

Scott C.Martin

Show and Tell

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1econd grade couldn't end soon enough for Chad Elain.Show and tell only prolonged the agony of an endlessMay.A parade of his classmates passed before him, somepresenting the same items they had shown earlier in the year.Was it intentional? Did Jenny really not know that she hadalready brought her grandmother's locket from the old world?Did Jeff not remember bringing his amateur electronics kitfrom Radio Shack in October?Chad remembered. He remembered taking one look at theamulet and knowing, just knowing that the jewelry was not120 years old. It couldn't have been more than 20. He knew itwas not made from pure silver, as Jenny had believed, but of some kind of cheap metal. Maybe aluminum. Chad looked athis teacher, Ms. Horvath, who was patiently smiling andnodding. Ms. Horvath didn't believe it was antique jewelry