I had no idea what time it was. There were no windows. The strip lighting was bright and made my eyes hurt. It felt like night. There was a long metal bench along the wall to my right with cardboard boxes beneath. Tools and cans of oil and stuff like that were spattered around. I turned my head a...
It must’ve been late afternoon; after the day crowd, before the evening mob. Music was playing. It was soppy shit, but Brenda was getting drunk and she smiled and swayed to the music. Her long throat was bare and looked like carved mahogany. Her hair, done up in those thin...
The lift was still broken. I climbed the stairs, stopping now and then to catch my breath. I passed a group of teenagers on one of the levels. They watched me go by in silence. One of them said something and the others laughed. This was their world and they were watching it crawl past, spitting a...