A Girl Like You
“Rains flood the latrines, so that excrement runs down the alley and bubbles up beneath the barracks, where it settles in thick slimy pools. Drawn to the toxic smell, flies swarm, causing the residents in the Bakers’ row of barracks to name their road “Sewer Alley.”The children make a game of the infestations, seeing how many flies they can collect. They stack them up in old gallon jugs and empty bottles, any container they can lay their hands on. One boy proudly claims to have collected two tho...usand of the dirty, dark-bodied things.With the winter behind them, Sewer Alley is always crowded now with inmates who prefer to live their summer lives outside. Used now to Satomi’s aloof manner, and charmed by Tamura, their neighbors greet them with bows and good-mornings.Satomi talks sometimes with the girls of her own age in the alley, but she hasn’t made a special friend of any of them, doesn’t want to. Lily’s fickleness has made her cautious. There’s a boy named Ralph a couple of barracks away, whom she often talks with.MoreLess
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