The Alpha broken mate
They share what little they have, day-old bread from a charity, tips on which dumpsters have the best pickings, which cops will leave you alone and which will roust you on sight.
But I do not belong there either. The others have stories, identities, pasts they can talk about. I have nothing to share except emptiness.
On the fourth day, hunger drives me to stupidity.
A convenience store, early morning, the clerk distracted by his phone. I slip a sandwich and a bottle of water under my jacket and head for the door.
“Hey! Stop!”
I run.
But I am still weak. The clerk catches me half a block away, tackling me to the pavement. The sandwich falls, crushed beneath our struggling bodies.
Bab Populer