Anyone But You (2014)
“Answer to That BY THE TIME I GOT BACK TO THE FRONT STOOP of the humble apartment building where both my family and Benny’s lived, my feet were throbbing more than my shiner. I’d spent all day and half the night looking for Stella, but it was hopeless. When I’d arrived, breathless, at the arcade, the cacophony of bells, whistles, kids’ screams, and barkers’ baritone yawps made me feel disoriented. Maybe I was still reeling from Benny’s knuckle sandwich. Once my brain adjusted, it was pretty obvi...ous: there was no trace of her.
At the shooting gallery, a grizzled man with a face like a wild boar gave me the once over. He looked relatively in charge, so I asked him if he’d seen a girl fitting Stella’s description.
“Yeah, I seen her,” he said, reaching with a hook for a stuffed purple cat, a prize for someone who’d just hit the bulls-eye. “She was standing around here looking like some lost sheep that stumbled into a pack of wolves. She circled the place for about fifteen minutes, till my boys started razzin’ her.MoreLess
At the shooting gallery, a grizzled man with a face like a wild boar gave me the once over. He looked relatively in charge, so I asked him if he’d seen a girl fitting Stella’s description.
“Yeah, I seen her,” he said, reaching with a hook for a stuffed purple cat, a prize for someone who’d just hit the bulls-eye. “She was standing around here looking like some lost sheep that stumbled into a pack of wolves. She circled the place for about fifteen minutes, till my boys started razzin’ her.MoreLess
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