On the Nickel
“A discreet call revealed that she wasn’t at her mother’s, and by dark she hadn’t shown up home at Boyle Heights.
Maeve Liffey was presumably at it again, the scourge of evildoers, answering some Bat-Sign that only Maeve could see in the sky. Well, strictly speaking, it wasn’t that great a mystery, Gloria thought. She knew Maeve was out looking for Conor Lewis. She had total recall of both sides of the phone conversation with Mike Lewis, between Jack’s scribbles and the boy’s dad responding. And... she’d also gone out of her way to find out for Maeve the address of the ATM that was Conor’s last cash-out the day before – Mike’s Market on the edge of Skid Row. Jesus! Gloria thought. She didn’t look forward to spending her evening after a twelve-hour shift down on The Nickel, fending off horny old men, trying to make sense of mushmouth ravings and avoiding the body sores that would give her a methicillin-resistant staph infection in a blink.
She heard a pounding behind her and turned to see Jack Liffey glowering from his chair and hitting the side of the stove.MoreLess
Maeve Liffey was presumably at it again, the scourge of evildoers, answering some Bat-Sign that only Maeve could see in the sky. Well, strictly speaking, it wasn’t that great a mystery, Gloria thought. She knew Maeve was out looking for Conor Lewis. She had total recall of both sides of the phone conversation with Mike Lewis, between Jack’s scribbles and the boy’s dad responding. And... she’d also gone out of her way to find out for Maeve the address of the ATM that was Conor’s last cash-out the day before – Mike’s Market on the edge of Skid Row. Jesus! Gloria thought. She didn’t look forward to spending her evening after a twelve-hour shift down on The Nickel, fending off horny old men, trying to make sense of mushmouth ravings and avoiding the body sores that would give her a methicillin-resistant staph infection in a blink.
She heard a pounding behind her and turned to see Jack Liffey glowering from his chair and hitting the side of the stove.MoreLess
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