Widow Town
“Gray looked up at the jeweled wires crisscrossed from the buildings into the night sky beyond but couldn’t see the real thing for light pollution. He ambled down the sidewalk, nearing the festivities, the sounds of a dozen songs filtered out through the doors of the open businesses.
The street had been cleared of cars and was now lined with benches and chairs. People roamed between the buildings, most dressed well, kids running around their feet in circles of excitement, long glowing wands ...held in their hands. The air smelled of popped corn and brown sugar, frying grease and coffee. A wide tent was set up at the far end of the street, dozens of people passing through its pinned flaps for the cold beer being doled out within. The tunings of a twelve-person band came from the corner of the last block, their instruments not yet harmonious but alien and ugly in their discordant singularity.
He breathed it in and looked at the front of Lynn’s store.MoreLess
The street had been cleared of cars and was now lined with benches and chairs. People roamed between the buildings, most dressed well, kids running around their feet in circles of excitement, long glowing wands ...held in their hands. The air smelled of popped corn and brown sugar, frying grease and coffee. A wide tent was set up at the far end of the street, dozens of people passing through its pinned flaps for the cold beer being doled out within. The tunings of a twelve-person band came from the corner of the last block, their instruments not yet harmonious but alien and ugly in their discordant singularity.
He breathed it in and looked at the front of Lynn’s store.MoreLess
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