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Xperiment by Dan Skinner5/30/2023 The skittering noises in the walls that separated him from the other tenants were made by mice, or rats, or very large cockroaches. He could clearly hear every exchange between Lucy and Ricky and the tinny audience laughter. The depression that accompanied it still clung like adhesive to the persistent pain.Īn old episode of I Love Lucy was playing in a neighbor’s apartment. He sat up, feeling it jackhammer inside his skull. He still had the headache he’d gone to bed with. He could smell the heavily curried Indian food that had been cooked in the neighbor’s apartment the previous night. Sunlight squirmed through holes torn in old window shades. He cursed the alarm clock that woke him to the two-room hovel that was his cheap apartment. There wasn’t a day in the nineteen years of his life that Geoff Markham woke up glad to be himself.
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