The Bone Triangle
“What a strange niche I’d carved out of life for myself. At this point, I was searching for two runaways, both females, but radically different in nature. I smiled as I considered Photoshopping up an image of Ezzie and walking around town, showing it to people.
I walked the Strip to a shopping mall. The building was about to close, but I had just enough time to purchase new shoes, socks, and jeans. I took them to the public restrooms, changed, and shoved the dirty pants and shoes into the trash. They could be washed, I supposed, but I didn’t feel like carting them around with me any longer. I’d endured enough wrinkled noses and whispers already.
Feeling civilized again, I exited the mall under the irritated eyes of a night watchman who was trying to kick everyone out. He rattled his keys in the lock behind me after I exited.
I paused on the sidewalk outside. Getting a sudden impulse, I turned around and tapped on the glass. The watchman waved me away. I placed the picture of Jacqueline... Swanson on the glass between us.MoreLess
I walked the Strip to a shopping mall. The building was about to close, but I had just enough time to purchase new shoes, socks, and jeans. I took them to the public restrooms, changed, and shoved the dirty pants and shoes into the trash. They could be washed, I supposed, but I didn’t feel like carting them around with me any longer. I’d endured enough wrinkled noses and whispers already.
Feeling civilized again, I exited the mall under the irritated eyes of a night watchman who was trying to kick everyone out. He rattled his keys in the lock behind me after I exited.
I paused on the sidewalk outside. Getting a sudden impulse, I turned around and tapped on the glass. The watchman waved me away. I placed the picture of Jacqueline... Swanson on the glass between us.MoreLess
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