The Night Clerk By Mo Walsh

In the story “The Night Clerk” by Mo Walsh, we are introduced to the unnamed night clerk at a zip mart. The protagonist of this story, the night clerk, is going through training and one of these training exercises is how to handle a robbery. From what we can see from the story, we find out he’s ex-military as he described “Did I mention I’m ex-military? I did two tours dodging street fire in Fallujah and picking up the pieces after IED explosions”. when the situation arose of the store getting robbed he knew exactly what to do. He is calm and collected and at the end of the story, where the night clerk could’ve easily killed or apprehended the 20-year old robber, he lets him go with the money but takes away the gun from him. As the night clerk