Golden Egg
8 min readMay 21, 2019
a short story
Fudge Wheeler has a big toe for a thumb and skin from his thigh for an ear. Some people say that when he was in Nam, the Vietcong blew off his thumb and most of his ear. Others say he got his strange injuries after being burned in an apartment fire when he was just a kid. Others say that he cut off his thumb with a machine. Truth is, no one but Fudge really knows for sure. But what everyone does know for sure is that Fudge is a…
