Jasika Nicole
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Holy shit, I said.
Yeah, I know, Lexi said.
Take pride in what you do or don't do it.
That's what my mom always told me.
She was a mess and a liar, but you know, still those lessons stick with you.
I know what you mean, I said.
I nodded to the man in the corner.
He okay?
Oh, he's always here, Lexi said.
I wouldn't worry about it.
That's when the woman from the phone walked in.
I only had heard her voice, but I knew it was her at one glance.
Don't ask me to explain.
Some things resist explanation.
A box truck with one side missing, parked perpendicular just off the road.
Empty.
Hundreds of blackbirds forming a scrawl across the sky, flying off to somewhere that isn't here.
The woman was real thin, clothes loose on her, like she lost a lot of weight way too fast.
Cancer is what I immediately thought of, but who knows?
She had a hat pulled low over her face, dark glasses, like a celebrity trying and failing to be inconspicuous.