Doll Crimes
Crystal Lake Publishing
If I’d been wearing my mother’s lip gloss, it was all gone.
And I said, “Hi.”
Up close his smells clouded his skin, tainted into sweat. Soap and cigarettes, aftershave and talcum powder. Something sharp mixing with something it shouldn’t. Razorblades scraping inside my nose, making me sneeze.
“Bless you, honey.”
I didn’t understand why he laughed—laughing like it’s funny to hear someone sneeze. I didn’t understand why he sounded nervous about it: my sneeze, his laugh, both. And not understanding, I laughed back.
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