Read Are You Sitting Down? Online

Authors: Shannon Yarbrough

Are You Sitting Down? (45 page)

BOOK: Are You Sitting Down?
2.68Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub
ads

Back down Highway 55, I pulled into Four Points Gr
o
cery for a cold drink.
I was shocked to find the glass door locked.
I stuck my face up to the glass, but did not see Mr. Greer inside.
The butcher counter was clean; the small conve
n
ience store was dark.
A sign in the window indicated he was not open today
:
CLOSED FOR CHRISTMAS, REMEMBER THE REASON FOR THE SEASON.

I sat in the idling car for a moment to contemplate the two directions I could take from here.
One was a boring stretch of highway that led back to my
lonely
apartment in the city, and the other was just a few blocks
away leading
home.

I chose
home
.

 

BOOK: Are You Sitting Down?
2.68Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub
ads

Other books

Before I Burn: A Novel by Heivoll, Gaute
Ticket to India by N. H. Senzai
The Shadow Puppet by Georges Simenon; Translated by Ros Schwartz
Farewell to Lancashire by Anna Jacobs
Riding Red by Nadia Aidan