Fat Lightning
“and downtown office workers would eat bag lunches and watch the seasons change. It is surrounded by grass-covered bunkers that make it look like one of the Civil War fortifications that ring the city’s east side. It is shaded by Bradford pears.
On any day when the sun shines and the temperature rises above 50, though, Nancy knows she has no better than an even chance of having a bench to herself at noon. The wind-blocking bunkers and the shade the hardy trees provide were seen immediately by th...e city’s dispossessed as a gift, and they have used it often and well.
Many of Nancy’s co-workers at the library choose to eat at their desks, but she feels that if she can’t have lunch outside her own building, then she’s lost the whole city. The surliest wino gets a firm “no” when he asks for a handout; she only gives to those who appear to be older than herself, and she notices that they are becoming more and more scarce.
She first becomes aware of the old black woman because she is old, and because she is a woman.MoreLess
On any day when the sun shines and the temperature rises above 50, though, Nancy knows she has no better than an even chance of having a bench to herself at noon. The wind-blocking bunkers and the shade the hardy trees provide were seen immediately by th...e city’s dispossessed as a gift, and they have used it often and well.
Many of Nancy’s co-workers at the library choose to eat at their desks, but she feels that if she can’t have lunch outside her own building, then she’s lost the whole city. The surliest wino gets a firm “no” when he asks for a handout; she only gives to those who appear to be older than herself, and she notices that they are becoming more and more scarce.
She first becomes aware of the old black woman because she is old, and because she is a woman.MoreLess
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