Encounters
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The Red-Shirt Man was a what-if. One day I saw a man in a bright red shirt washing the show windows of the JCPenney store in Derry—this was not long before Penney’s moved out to the mall. A young man and woman walked under his ladder … very bad luck, according to the old superstition. These two didn’t know where they were walking, though—they were holding hands, drinking deeply of each other’s eyes, as completely in love as any two twenty-year-olds in the history of the world. The man was tall, and as I watched, the top of his head came within an ace of clipping the window-washer’s feet. If that had happened, the whole works might have gone over.
Source: Bag of Bones ▫𓂃
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