Doll Crimes
If there are a million shampoo bottles lined up on the shower floor, gummy and battered and squished flat, she’s probably still around sometimes.
There was the man who lived above his hardware store. No curtains on the windows, and a door that opened up to the rooftop where he grew his herbs. It was cool out there, and calm. There was the guy who lived in a cottage behind his mother’s house—hotplate life, his TV-stand crammed up against the foot of his bed so the picture flickered across to us, images and voices too loud and too close. The man with turtles in his bathtub; tiny, helpless things with curved flippers flapping over each other in the shallow, rust-colored water. He never told us
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