Fish Heads and Duck Skin by Lindsey Salatka

Author:Lindsey Salatka
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: She Writes Press
Published: 2021-09-14T16:00:00+00:00

26.

“There’s something wrong with this place!” I hollered into my cell phone as I steamrolled over toes and elbowed the butts of innocents on the sidewalk outside of the market. I held my phone to my ear by my cocked left shoulder. People scattered around me, expressing their dissent with high-pitched percussive commentary, clucking, and fluffing, then rejoining their traffic patterns behind me.

“What happened?” Daniel asked.

“My diaper bag is poof! Gone. Vanished. No trace. My wallet was in it. I have nothing.” I jumped the stroller off the sidewalk and into the gutter to get around an army of men sweeping the street corner with brooms formed from a collection of tree branches banded together with string. The girls squealed in joy.

“Is that the girls I hear?”

“Uh, yes.”

“Then you don’t exactly have nothing,” he said.

I thought about hanging up but couldn’t figure out how to do it with my chin, so I stayed on the line and fumed silently.

“Was there a lot of money in it?”

“Not really. About fifty bucks.”

“Your passport?”

“No.”

“Apartment key?”

“No.”

“Any credit cards?”

“Just a debit card with my picture on it. I already cancelled it.”

“What else?”

“Other cards. Health insurance. Driver’s license. Triple A—”

“Those cards are worthless here.”

A horn honked behind me. I shook my fist at the driver of the Jetta taxi riding my tail with two of his wheels on the sidewalk. “Shut up!” I hollered.

“Uh, was that directed at me?” Daniel asked.

“No. I mean, sort of! I know the cards are worthless here, okay?”

“Then why were they in your wallet?”

“Are you serious right now? I’m telling you my personal property—”

“And I’m telling you it could be worse.”

I looked at my watch. “This isn’t helpful. I just got to our building, and I need to identify an English speaker who can help me replace my pool pass.”

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