Taste of Tenderloin
“Tiny beads of sweat popped out on his pale body, forehead, and upper lip as he waited with a rising sense of nervous anticipation.
He wondered if the altered state would hit him again that evening—a rare emotional and speculative state of mind.
Nathan hadn’t felt or thought much of anything since his wife, Geri, and their son, Davy, had died in an automobile accident near Kezar Stadium ten years before. For most of the past decade he’d aimlessly wandered the Tenderloin district of San Francisco... in a numbed daze, his sensibilities usually anesthetized by liberal dozes of Old English, Gallo Tokay, and Wild Irish Rose. Once a hard-charging tailored suit on Montgomery Street in the financial district, he’d squandered everything since the accident, lucky now to even own a threadbare, greasy navy blue topcoat. If it weren’t for the monthly SSI checks, he would have been sleeping in a cardboard tent in an alley. As it was, Nathan always found himself panhandling at the end of each month just to make ends meet—a fifty-year-old drunken bum.MoreLess
He wondered if the altered state would hit him again that evening—a rare emotional and speculative state of mind.
Nathan hadn’t felt or thought much of anything since his wife, Geri, and their son, Davy, had died in an automobile accident near Kezar Stadium ten years before. For most of the past decade he’d aimlessly wandered the Tenderloin district of San Francisco... in a numbed daze, his sensibilities usually anesthetized by liberal dozes of Old English, Gallo Tokay, and Wild Irish Rose. Once a hard-charging tailored suit on Montgomery Street in the financial district, he’d squandered everything since the accident, lucky now to even own a threadbare, greasy navy blue topcoat. If it weren’t for the monthly SSI checks, he would have been sleeping in a cardboard tent in an alley. As it was, Nathan always found himself panhandling at the end of each month just to make ends meet—a fifty-year-old drunken bum.MoreLess
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