Review: Government Secrets
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 4, 2012
"The Chemist" by Chris Blewitt is a short story about the days of Prohibition when the government added poison to alcohol to teach the people who were drinking it a lesson.  Charlie is the main character who is sucked into doing things he doesn't want to do by two men who follow him and force him into committing crimes he otherwise wouldn't do in exchange for getting his brother out of prison. Little does he know who they are.Before reading this short story I had never heard of this government practice.  At the end of the story, there is a short piece by Anne Helmenstine about the different kinds of alcohol for consumption and those that are not.  This definitely gives you something to think about from nearly a century ago.