Stories tagged “parking lot”
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Beyond the Supermarket
The parking lot possesses the kind of lighting appropriate for such crimes as mugging, rape, and unsanctioned gambling to take place unnoticed. My car is nearby, parked in a handicap spot, sideways. I make my way towards it with haste. I open the trunk...
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The Observer in the Parking Lot
She walked around the parking lot, her mother asking her questions— her answers being “Yes” and “No”, but mostly “No.” She wasn’t an impolite girl, and she knew her mom meant well, so she refrained from g...
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Lesson time
The two men smirked at me and got out of the limo. “Come sit opposite me” Mr. Black said. Obediently I slid across and he smiled at me. “You a virgin?” he asked surveying me continually as the limo slid out of the parking lot. I...
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The Pedestrian
He picked up a pair of baby shoes that had somehow found its way to the top of an overflowing trash can. He looked at the shoes for a long moment, trying to decipher its history. Realizing doing so was a paper chase through the fecundity of his inventi...