Snap Shots by Alan Blackwood

Author:Alan Blackwood
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
Published: 2019-11-28T16:00:00+00:00

Laughing Sal

Through the salt-caked windows in the basement of Cliff House, Diana stared out at the stretch of wet promenade to the hump of Seal Rock. She turned back to the dusty clutter of pinball tables and miniature cranes dangling over heaps of tarnished trinkets and charms. The graveyard of a penny arcade.

Not quite dead. I dropped a dime into a small organ or calliope. A wheezy pair of bellows fed pipes that suddenly blared out The Stars and Stripes Forever, as you’d never heard it before nor ever wanted to again.

Laughing Sal was still alive as well. A limbless torso in blue and white polka dot smock and a wicked shiny face beneath a ginger wig. For another dime she began to shake and shudder and to laugh and scream inside her glass case. You could be drowning out there, reaching for the slippery sides of Seal Rock, while Sal went on laughing and screaming fit to bust.

‘Some bloody holiday,’ Diana bawled even louder.

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