Day: May 20, 2022

The hotel smelled of its forty years. I had the door open, and I was in the parking lot off the strip. I could hear the surf behind the hotel. The ice machine. The air conditioners. The Shag carpeting curled around the bed posts. The white towels from the surf on the bed. I was…

-I was a child, and she was a child in our Kingdom by the Sea- There was a man named Eric as he came down the hall of St. Patrick’s. I sat on the bench at the Piano. The Priest knew me from nights he would let me in to sleep in the Church, many…