Friendly Enough
Saturday, April 26, 2014 at 8:38PM
David Antrobus in David Antrobus, Lyrical, Motel Stories, No Pets, Shamrock, flash fiction, short fiction

Low-slung motel's silhouetted against a stand of broken cedars, No Pets sign mocked by cats in windows, most stalls filled by cars belonging to last-minute flyers out the local airport. Has some name like Shamrock or Lookout, on some street named Bakerview, perhaps, and the late afternoon egg-yolk sun's dropping fast as autumn mercury while a raucous carful of crackheads from north of the border pulls in, looking for a place for four, maybe five hours so they can get royally fucked up this night, two boys two girls equally. While we all glance, pace sticky carpets, warily share our pets, or at least their shadows, lend our corkscrews and local knowhow, act friendly enough.

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