Though a Mirror Darkly
But though my morning proved uneventful—I took a few fares to ordinary destinations, and nothing strange happened at all—that afternoon the dyke I’d built in my head sprung another leak, and I officially ran out of fingers.
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Around two o’clock I parked before Clifton Heights First Methodist. One of my regulars, Bobby Watson, was standing on the curb, bags of food pantry goods huddled at his feet. Standing six foot four, weighing enough to make my cab sag on its shocks, Bobby must’ve been quite the physical specimen once. Though his pendulous gut hung over his belt, his chest sagged and his face was puffy and soft, his arms and legs were the size of tree-trunks, and his hands looked like t
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