Nocturne
“The taxi dropped me across the road. It was pouring with rain and I was dripping wet by the time I got inside.
The waiting area was nearly full. There was a counter at one end and the walls were plastered with posters. The one above the remaining empty seat featured a gloved hand reaching through a pane of broken glass. ‘Beware of Uninvited Guests’, it read. ‘Check Your Doors and Windows’.
I waited nearly forty minutes for my turn at the counter, watching a succession of distraught loca...ls tangling with the police bureaucracy. The one who took the longest was a bent old lady who’d lost her cat to a youth with an air rifle, and by the time she’d finished the desk officer had been joined by a younger man. This younger guy was in uniform as well and he beckoned me forward to the counter. I’m guessing but I’d say he was my age. He was big. He had broad shoulders, and short blond hair, and the coldest eyes I’d ever seen. All he needed at weekends, I remember thinking, was a big fat jet ski.MoreLess
The waiting area was nearly full. There was a counter at one end and the walls were plastered with posters. The one above the remaining empty seat featured a gloved hand reaching through a pane of broken glass. ‘Beware of Uninvited Guests’, it read. ‘Check Your Doors and Windows’.
I waited nearly forty minutes for my turn at the counter, watching a succession of distraught loca...ls tangling with the police bureaucracy. The one who took the longest was a bent old lady who’d lost her cat to a youth with an air rifle, and by the time she’d finished the desk officer had been joined by a younger man. This younger guy was in uniform as well and he beckoned me forward to the counter. I’m guessing but I’d say he was my age. He was big. He had broad shoulders, and short blond hair, and the coldest eyes I’d ever seen. All he needed at weekends, I remember thinking, was a big fat jet ski.MoreLess
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