The Empty Room
“she told Andrew, the liquor store clerk. Andrew dyed his hair the shade of an eggplant and had a tattoo of black roses on his right forearm, which he had showed her a year or so ago, when she first saw it poking out of his long sleeved T-shirt. He had more, he’d said, but he couldn’t show her those, and he winked. He also told her his girlfriend had a tattoo of corset lacings up her back. He was from Thunder Bay and had a degree in Computer Science, but couldn’t get a job in his field.Colleen k...new most of the clerks at the LCBOs in the vicinity of her home and office—well, what used to be her office. She went out of her way to chat with them, as she did with most shopkeepers—the health-food store people, the bookstore owner, the dry cleaner. She liked to be part of a neighbourhood, part of a community. In the back of her mind she realized being on a first-name basis with the liquor store employees probably wasn’t a good thing. It was like that old saying about how if you started getting calls on the bar phone you knew it was time to find a new bar.MoreLess
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