Trouble & Strife by Simon Wood

Author:Simon Wood
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Down & Out Books

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Tea Leaf

Inspired by the Rhyming Slang for Thief

Susanna Calkins

Maria’s text is stark and, quite frankly, irritating. “Hurry up,” it says.

Even though I don’t want to, I still find myself picking up my pace as I walk towards Second Street. Maria is my boss after all. But after months of working late nights at a bar, my body finds it hard to adjust to the morning hours required of my new job as a jewelry store clerk. And of course, there had been Dmitri. I hadn’t seen him in several weeks, so we’d enjoyed getting reacquainted last night.

My face cracks into a wide grin as I think about how he’d woken me with a kiss earlier. Dana, I gotta go, he’d whispered, his deep blue eyes peering into my own. But I have a surprise for you tonight. The start of something new. I’ll give it to you, before your shift at the bar.

He’d left before I had a chance to tell him that I’d been fired from that bar. That I’d started a new job in the weeks he’d been away. Oh, well. There was time. I’d tell him later.

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