If Fried Chicken Could Fly
“He claimed that he knew where everything was and that there was an alphabetical and by-date reference system, sort of. All I could see was a tall-ceilinged room that was full of stuff—neatly organized stuff but stuff nonetheless.
The room was bathed in a yellowish light, which was soothing and, he once told me, kind and gentle to old things. The chandelier that gave off the light was in itself a part of Broken Rope’s history. At one time it had hung in the saloon (back in the liquor-only days, ...no ice cream). Its big white glass dome had once covered a candle that didn’t illuminate much but made a great fire hazard. Somehow a bullet ricocheted off a piece of the chandelier and killed the saloon owner who was, at the time, a woman named Retta O’Brien. She’d come to town, running from some bad choices, and hadn’t wanted to join the ranks of prostitution so she’d disguised herself as a man. She bought the saloon with a bank loan she wouldn’t have been given as a woman and ran the place as Rhett O’Brien.MoreLess
The room was bathed in a yellowish light, which was soothing and, he once told me, kind and gentle to old things. The chandelier that gave off the light was in itself a part of Broken Rope’s history. At one time it had hung in the saloon (back in the liquor-only days, ...no ice cream). Its big white glass dome had once covered a candle that didn’t illuminate much but made a great fire hazard. Somehow a bullet ricocheted off a piece of the chandelier and killed the saloon owner who was, at the time, a woman named Retta O’Brien. She’d come to town, running from some bad choices, and hadn’t wanted to join the ranks of prostitution so she’d disguised herself as a man. She bought the saloon with a bank loan she wouldn’t have been given as a woman and ran the place as Rhett O’Brien.MoreLess
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