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Tommy is choking on his hotdog, his face growing blue in the rear-view mirror. I pull up onto the green and grab him from his booster seat. I slap his back, hard, the chewed-up wiener falling onto the rubber car mat.
“Dad,” Tommy cried, breathing, “I wanted to eat that!”
Sam Brown is an author based in East London. He released his first book at age 22.