Stolen
I came out of the house, saw the car that had
smashed onto the door of the garage of the house across the road. My own car
should have been in the gap where the smashed car had come through, but it
wasn't. I scanned for it with mounting alarm. The row of old American cars
disappeared round the corner, the Nova which had been my dad's was there, old
Nicolás had bought it when my dad had decided he needed something newer, to
my great chagrin as I liked that car and was hoping to get it from him.
Something didn't quite click right,, though. I knew I had left the car across
the road. The moon was big and yellow, emerging from the side of the mountain,
which seem to be covered in forest fires. Somebody shouted something about the
lions coming, but I paid no heed as I was so concerned with my lost car. "it is
a dark green Peugeot 405", I was saying to my neighbour. "I've never seen one",
he said, "how did you get hold of that? Did you have it imported? How do you get
parts for it?", "I take it to Alan on Sidney Road, I bought it from him".
"Where is this Sidney Road?"
But I had
no time to waste on that sort of conversation with my strange weird neighbour, I
needed to find my car. I'd left some important stuff in the boot and needed to
get at that. I had a look round the block, in case I'd put it someplace else.
Couldn't be on Calle Esmeralda as I didn't like the car to be so far out of
sight. I still went after I looked in Calle Internacional and Calle .. oh,
what's its name, the one on the other side. La Esperanza? No, that was the name
of the pharmacy that belonged to Mr Suarez. Except there hadn''t been a pharmacy
there for many years now, how come I'm looking at it
now?
As I was looking for the car at
the back, in Calle Esmeralda, noticed the pretty Chinese paper lanterns on teh
windows and Iwondered what that meant. The moon was now high in the sky, there
were a handful of stars and some brighter ones on the horizon, maybe planets..
three of them together
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Posted: Mon - September 13, 2004 at 06:37 PM