Babs' Diner

(Previously Published as 'The Diner' by J.C. Robinson)Welcome to Babs' Diner.Not all who enter will come leave.Widow Babs McDayle has worked her life away, day in and day out, open to close, running her diner, serving all who come in. Quickly, Babs realizes the world is a pit of bile and violence. Patrons of the diner walk all over her, insult her, defile her diner, try to rip her off.When a rat sneaks into diner and begins to terrorize her cupboards contents, she snaps and realizes that many humans are nothing more than rats themselves, sheathed in a human skin.For over forty years, Babs has exterminated those rats who were unlucky enough to step into her diner. It has become her life's work.But when she gets caught by a polite patron, she is forced to kidnap him to protect her secret. Unfortunately for Babs, her employee and good friend, Amanda discovers the patron, forcing Babs' hand.Now Babs' faces the greatest ethical dilemma of her life: does she kill two innocent people to protect her work, enabling her to continue, or does she let them go and risk everything?Perhaps there is a third option.Come into Babs' Diner and find out.

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