Never Going Back by Sam Wiebe

Author:Sam Wiebe
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781459825796
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Published: 2020-05-31T16:00:00+00:00

A few days after I’d started my sentence in prison, Lisa told me, an elderly woman came into Lisa’s pawnshop with a box of old photographs and postcards. Lisa paid the woman five dollars for the whole box. She put the box of photos in a corner, wrote $1 each/3 for $5 on the front of the box and went back to her desk.

Six weeks later a man came in. He was blond and handsome, though his nose had been broken before, and he was missing some teeth. He looked around the store and started sifting through the box of photos.

Lisa was thinking about other things. She didn’t worry too much about the man. The next person to enter was a beautiful woman, who walked over to see what the man was doing.

“Find anything, Ty?” she asked.

“Maybe.” The man was trying not to sound excited, but Lisa could tell he was fascinated by the box. He was too careful with the photos, treating each one like it was precious.

“Ty, I want to go,” the woman said. “I’m hungry.”

The man took his time walking to the counter. “Three for five, huh?” he said to Lisa.

“That was the old price,” Lisa said. She didn’t know what the box was worth, but the man was too interested in the photos for them to be junk. She decided to overcharge him, then look up what the photos were worth much later. “New price is $500. All or nothing. Take it or leave it.”

She knew she’d made a mistake when the man smiled.

“Deal,” he said, slapping five $100 bills on the counter. He walked out, happy, with the box under his arm.

“What’s so special about a bunch of old pictures?” Lisa heard the woman ask him. The two were holding hands as they left.

“These are Jane Brick photos,” the man said. “Originals. They’re beautiful—and worth a lot of money.”

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