Abby tells Liza

Abby tells Liza they must leave. They pack and run. Rain drizzles. Below the freeway Abby and Liza wander.

Liza must pee. Abby tells Liza GO BEHIND A TREE. No trees. A man watches. PERVERT! Abby throws

a rock. Misses. Liza sneaks behind a dead Frigidaire. Abby tells Liza she may throw her own rocks. Liza throws rocks at men. Men protest

but leave her alone. Liza and Abby catch wisps of sleep on the street below the freeway. Nick seeks and finds them. He pleads

COME HOME WITH ME. Abby slings a rock at Nick. Stunned, he falls. Abby runs. Liza, torn, fusses

over Nick. He tells her CHASE ABBY. Liza cannot find her in the night grey. Later Liza goes home with Nick.

Abby is lost. The street smells like piss. Traffic, soft, steady, roars. Shifty characters trade places in the shadows.

Pamela Hobart Carter

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