Tom Merritt
speaker
245 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 18 Jun
Tom Merritt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Louis, took the shuttle to the rental car, and drove back across the river into Illinois and my planned vacation.
When I arrived at the cabin, I spotted George standing down next to the lake.
His white polymer body hunched over a bucket.
I hurried over, worried that he might fall into the water and fry himself.
The stench of fish in the air rattled me when I came close.
George had scooped himself up a bucket of pond water with dozens of silvery minnows darting about inside.
The grass all around George was strewn with dead fish and tiny splatters of their innards.
What on earth are you doing?
I asked, more intrigued than upset.
Why, these are not people, George.
They're fish.
They do not drown.
They live in water, I said.
Fish, he repeated.
He stared down into the bucket, his bulbous white head processing the concept of living beings thriving in water.
I looked at the tiny corpses littering the grass around me.
Their stomachs had all been pressed and dented in by George's unfeeling fingers.
Was he acting out what he had seen on TV?
Had he tried to save them all from drowning?
Was this his attempt at CPR?
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