Fiction

Woman at the Bar

Thank You John D. MacDonald

Photo by Edgar Chaparro on Unsplash

I thought it was going to be a normal day, never imagining it would be the day my world turned upside down. The humidity was thick enough to swim in, but I love Florida’s weather, even the unrelenting summer heat.

So I didn’t mind the short sweaty walk from my old house through two blocks of sand and sticky burrs to Jimmy’s…