A Million Doorways by K. Martin Beckner

Author:K. Martin Beckner [Beckner, K. Martin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781537772707
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-10-22T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

He didn’t find Cynthia, but he did see someone he vaguely recognized sitting on a bench next to the big fountain. It was the boy he’d seen cleaning Zelma’s house. He was reading a comic book as Ethan parked his bike and approached him.

“Don’t I recognize you from somewhere,” said Ethan, “Miss Green’s, I believe?”

The boy looked up, appearing a bit startled, and said, “Oh, hey. Yeah that’s me. How’s it going?”

“Doing good, I guess,” said Ethan sitting down beside him. “I see you like comic books too.”

“Yeah, I bought this one at Piggly Wiggly today, looked interesting. I haven’t read any of the Conan’s yet, so I thought I’d try it out. I’ve got a pretty big collection of comics at home. I don’t have anything better to do, I guess, being new to town.”

“Wow,” said Ethan. “That sounds like my story. I’m new here too. How’d you end up here?”

“My dad got a job at the carburetor plant, and we moved here from Ohio. Me and Mom stayed in Ohio until I finished the school year, then we came down. About the time we got here my dad ran off with a woman he met at the plant. Now my mom has to clean houses to make ends meet. He left us in a mess.”

“Man, that’s the pits,” said Ethan. “Me and my mom moved here from eastern Kentucky after my dad died.”

“It sounds bad, I guess, but I think it would have been easier to take if my dad had died, rather than he just abandoned us.”

“I can see your point.

“By the way, my name’s Ethan Brook.”

“Daniel Foster, here. It’s nice to meet you, Ethan.”

“It’s nice to meet you too, Daniel. It looks like we got a few things in common. Both of us are outsiders in this town, and we both collect comic books.”

“Yeah, maybe we could be friends,” said Daniel, “if we get along okay. It’d be nice to have someone to hang out with.”

“That’d be great. I hope we get along. I’ve been destitute on friends since I got here.”

“Yeah, me too,” said Daniel. “You seem like a pretty cool guy, so I think we’ll get along. Hey, if you don’t have to rush home, why don’t you come over and check out my comics? I guess it may be getting late, though.”

“That’d be cool,” said Ethan. “I don’t have to be at home anytime soon. My mom actually doesn’t even expect me back until tomorrow, so I can go home whenever. Since Miss Satterfield’s sister died, I’ve been staying overnight at Miss Green’s house this past week. She don’t like staying by herself at night, but I got tonight off unexpectedly.”

“Well, how cool. My mom won’t care if you come over. She’s probably passed out drunk on the couch by now, anyway. She hasn’t been doing so well since my dad left. She never drank much, that I know of, until my dad left, but now she can’t seem to stop.

Ethan admired

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