Will Harrison
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To him, the woman tending the store seemed angry.
She was jamming big-headed flowers into a metal vase as if they had mistreated her.
Her eyes were dark and set closely together.
She was wearing a sleeveless denim shirt, and on the top of her left shoulder was a tattoo.
He could tell it was fresh because the blues and yellows were backlit by swelling.
It was either the head of a cougar or motor gears that didn't mesh.
Either way, it looked like a shape that was about to change.
The man looked away from the woman because he felt he might answer incorrectly.
He wished again that the office manager had not asked him to get the flowers.
But why were they the ones arranging this anyway?
He remembered a film from his 10th grade biology class showing the vibration of bees on flowers and the blizzard of pollen, stamens, and pistils.
Now he felt anxious about all the living things around him, as if somehow all these delicate natural miracles were at risk because of the woman's negative energy.
He dug his hands into his front pockets and scratched the top of his thighs.
He considered again his sense of this woman.