Footnotes_Alfonse_Off the Grid_Elevator 7
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The house is empty when I get home. I shut the door against the wind that threatens snow, closing myself into a greater threat - an empty house. It takes me a minute to remember what my wife, Katie, told me as I was going out the door this morning. She was wrestling our 3-year-old into a bright pink coat while reciting the day’s itinerary that I was never going to remember. “And remember, Julie’s game is at 6 at the Vale complex. I’ll text you which court. She’s probably going to start. You should come.” Her www.onedoor.ccinformation came in rapid bursts as she fastened Amber’s coat-buttons.I’d muttered so...
Alfonse
I was supposed to meet him at “Randy’s,” a bar restaurant kind of place. Mostly neighborhood folks. Once in a while some wayfarers, bikers, those passing by and seeing the sign and figuring, “Why not!” There is this cowboy, like the Marlboro man type you see along the road on the building’s roof. A silhouette of a figure cut out of metal just standing there head down, as if waiting for the hangman to show up and read last rites. It has a revolving thing like we used to have on our Christmas tree that splashes it with the colors of the rainbow. Not pretty, but does make you look. Something abo...
Off the Grid
“Off the Grid”THURSDAY JULY 15th The only indication that there had been a power failure was the sound of the emergency generator kicking on, the soft hum of its engine audible even through the back wall of the house.. When Brad looked at the clock on the nightstand it was blinking at twelve o’clock so he knew something was wrong. Groping in the dim light of one small lamp he found his cellphone. It read 3:20 AM. There had been warnings of planned local brownouts and blackouts due to problems with the electrical grid but he’d expected them to happen during daylight hours when people wouldn’t n...
Elevator 7
Everett woke his son—Simone—up bright and early, holding out the nice-looking outfit his mother had picked out. Heaven knows why they decided that allowing a 4-year-old to come into a business office for “bring your kid to work day” was a good idea, but Everett wasn’t about to argue. Anastasia thought it would be good for Simone, and Everett wasn’t about to argue with her.Happy wife, happy life.What harm could come from bringing his cute kid to work? Maybe they would lay off giving him extra work to do, as no one wanted to deal with a bored child.*****Typically Velia wouldn’t be heading to wor...