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Buried by the Basement

from TO THE CLEANERS by *spandrel

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Merry was suspended appetite, purple wallpaper, and Ritalin prescriptions. She entered this milieu part of an afterschool project, a watershed Juliet.

Our first date a partially disastered helicopter crash. She looked right pekid in her girl shorts, skin blotchy and flushed, and not because of accident coloboma, but the discovery that my ringless fingers were like partial chromosome deletions and containing none of the code that could complete any sky-dropped family portrait.

Merry was suspended appetite, purple wallpaper and Ritalin prescriptions. She entered this milieu part of an afterschool project, a watershed Juliet. Bereft of complimentary nucleotides, I wanted to place my hand on one of those stick-kindling thighs and soak in the aftermath of our clashing auras.

I held out a sleeveless arm and turned away. She had the sewing kit open and heated each needle under her tongue. Sympathy stuck to webbed fingers, we saddled into the ferris wheel bucket and were jerked skyward.

She was so disappointed in the realization that I was no dentist elf, no spotless polo and khaki pants wearing MBA, DDS, or CPA. Only partially polite, nothing but crumbling marble window sill and smudgy glass. So there on the amusement attraction, she deflected my reach without even the slightest disgust and then slipped out the open space at our feet like a shadow.

I stayed on the ride for three complete cycles but it was quarter past twilight and she was a goner. Her mother standing below calling her name. My forearm looked like a drought-stricken Christmas tree farm.

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from TO THE CLEANERS, released October 7, 2022

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