A young woman with
long
dark
curly hair walks
out of a building
in an old
suburban
strip mall
across the parking
lot
smiling at Pahn
in a town
resembling his hometown
They go
into a small store
that still
glows with fifties
puce and
she takes him
into the back to
meet her father
who is an old
dark-skinned
man with
short grey
beard and hair
overalls and
the shape
of Alfred
Hitchcock speaking
in that patient
friendly
Louisiana drawl…
…Pahn is with Lisa
Gay Hamilton
in a happier
role
walking the
sidewalk
up Santa Cruz
avenue
to the grocery
store
where the dark
haired woman’s father
is having a
dispute…
…a large group of
fluid
generic rioters
rush the old store throwing
a green barrel
through the door and Pahn
fears for the
dark-haired woman’s family looking
for a phone booth to call the police—
he sees one booth
by the store
but it is too
close to the riot
so he walks back
up the avenue to find
another with
townspeople rushing past him and
sees the
police are already coming and
turning around the crowd has
already thinned
so he walks back down
to the store again
to find the crowd
has gone…
…inside the store
with the
dark-haired woman he walks
into
the back
and down the stairs
where her plump
and friendly mother
is calmly
sweeping the last
of the debris into
the basement
filled
to a depth of two feet with clear
green-tinted water and Pahn
wonders how they
will get it out
He assumes
from the mother’s
demeanor
that there must be
an easy drain
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