Esther Got Hit by a Nazi.

Esther and Ruth Goldbaum by Peggy Jo1

Creator’s Note:

This is my first Esther Goldbaum story. Originally published on Facebook. It came out the day after the announcement that there would be T-shirts for “Alligator Alcatraz” would be sold. In a lot of ways Esther’s personality is a WIP, and in someways this suffers from “Early Instalment Weirdness” I was working on her personality (I still am). She comes off a bit childish, but it was the first time I really got a hold on her relationship with her mother

The feedback was positive, especially on what happened to the guy who hit Esther. One of the questions I have always had was it better to hit evil or work with the law to fight it.

Always the nurse Ruth Goldbaum placed the bag of frozen peas on her adult daughter’s blacken eye “You want to tell me how you got this shiner.”

Esther was sitting on the apartment’s kitchen counter and began to fidget. “Mmm…Uh… Ok so…You see… there was this dude… Before I got to my community college English class. Anywho, he was wearing this Alligator Alcatraz t-shirt…”

Ruth knew this was how her daughter talked, she would start and stop, just to drag out the conversation. You had to prompt her, or Esther would let silence reign for a good 30 seconds. “And?” She had a feeling that she knew where this was heading.

Esther sighs. “So, I get close enough. that I know for sure he can hear me, and I say in a very loud voice… I say, at least the Nazi’s didn’t sell merch for their concentration camps…”

Ruth sighs a sigh almost identical to her daughter’s. “And?’

“So, he says to me, did you just call me a Nazi? And I said No. Then I said… I just said you are worse.”

Ruth takes a calming breath “Then?” Esther meekly points to her black eye.

“Did you fight back?”

“Well, I was going to kick him in the balls…But Barney the campus cop saw the whole thing and was on him before I could…Hand cuffed him and everything”

“So, the guy who was wearing a T-shirt that said we should feed prisoners to wild animals. went to jail.”

“Yup.” Esther replies with a smug grin.

Ruth shrugged, as she pulled back the bag of peas. “Want go get ice cream.”

Esther jumped off the counter and started her happy dance. “Esther is cool…Esther is cool… Esther got hit by a Nazi… Esther gets the ice cream…”

Sighing again Ruth tells her “Help me find my keys.” But as soon as she turns her back to her daughter. a slight smile formed on her face

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