Odd Hours (2008)
“Instead, before me stood a 1959 Cadillac Sedan DeVille that could have rolled off the showroom floor an hour previously. Massive, black, loaded with chrome detail, featuring big tail fins, it looked suitable for either interstate or interstellar travel.
The driver peered at me through the front passenger window, which she had put down. She appeared to be half again as old as the car, a heavyset, blue-eyed, pink-cheeked lady with a huge church-choir bosom. She wore white gloves and a little gray... hat with a yellow band and yellow feathers.
“You all right, child?” she asked.
I leaned down to the open window. “Yes, ma’am.”
“You lose somethin’ through the grating?”
“Yes, ma’am.” I lied because I had no idea what had happened—or had almost happened. “But it wasn’t anything important.”
She cocked her head, studied me for a moment, and said, “It wasn’t unimportant, neither. You seem like a boy needs a friend.”
Below the nearby lightning-bolt grate, the storm drain remained dark.MoreLess
The driver peered at me through the front passenger window, which she had put down. She appeared to be half again as old as the car, a heavyset, blue-eyed, pink-cheeked lady with a huge church-choir bosom. She wore white gloves and a little gray... hat with a yellow band and yellow feathers.
“You all right, child?” she asked.
I leaned down to the open window. “Yes, ma’am.”
“You lose somethin’ through the grating?”
“Yes, ma’am.” I lied because I had no idea what had happened—or had almost happened. “But it wasn’t anything important.”
She cocked her head, studied me for a moment, and said, “It wasn’t unimportant, neither. You seem like a boy needs a friend.”
Below the nearby lightning-bolt grate, the storm drain remained dark.MoreLess
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