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[stanford-photography]

The Birds By Jeff Stanford, 2023

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As the day wore on the rain beat at my window and the summer warmth faded away. The darkness slowly seeped into my images.

[101010mayumi]

[aradxan]

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[cavecanem3000]

Blackcoat #1

Blackcoat walked strangely. His legs moved as if he were a puppet. Each step was a display of effort. His arms were tucked neatly into the heavy black coat that was his name sake. Every time he entered the motel lobby, he was drenched. His dark hair was plastered to his forehead and each step of his suited trousers flung a puddle of water onto the motel’s already stained carpet. Slop slop slop. 

      “Sorry,” Blackcoat would say, as a greeting, “terrible rain out there.”

      Linda would smile and nod, but she would never hear any rain. Not even a drizzle.

      Blackcoat had a habit of coming to the motel. There didn’t seem to be any pattern to his arrival. He would sometimes not be seen for months, and then, slop slop slop, there he was. 

      Linda had tried to tell him to leave the first time.

      “You’re making a mess!” She said, “You know how much it cost to clean this thing?” She said, as her cigarette dangled from her lip. She had never cleaned the carpet. She didn’t know either. Blackcoat refused to leave. He stayed all night at the reception desk repeating the question: “Please may I have a room, Ma’am?” With mounting urgency each time. Every time he said it he would place another slimy stack of money onto Linda’s desk. She eventually caved. At least he’s polite. 

      Tonight was no different. 

      “You got something for me, Blackcoat?” Linda asked, as she folded her magazine in half. 

      “Yes Ma’am,” he said, and handed her the giant stack of wet dollar bills. 

      “And how is Atlantis this time of year?” Linda said with a grin. 

      “That’s very funny Linda,” Blackcoat replied with a sincerity Linda found unnerving, “How have you been?”

      “Can’t complain,” Linda said, as she began to hang up Blackcoat’s dollar bills on the makeshift clothesline made specifically for this scenario, “And yourself?”

      “My mother is about to die,” Linda hadn’t noticed the tears until that moment.

      “Oh. I’m so sorry.”

      “Don’t be. She’s old.”

      “Still,” Linda said.

      “Still,” Blackcoat repeated. “I will go to my room now.” He said. And then he did. 

      Linda listened as he slopped up the staircase. It hadn't truly occurred to her that Blackcoat would have a family. Did he have a wife too? And children? An image of a sopping wet family arranged neatly for their family photo flashed across Linda's mind. She guffawed aloud. Even the dog was drenched.

Blackcoat's mother was there too. In Linda's mind she was also wearing a coat, but hers was a soft grey. And it was tweed, unlike her son's polyester. The wet stink of the thing must have been dreadful. She did not imagine her with the same clammy wetness as the rest of the family. The imaginary water just wouldn't stick to her.

She had never asked Blackcoat about the wetness. She didn't the first time, and it suddenly seemed inappropriate to ask after all this time. But now he had revealed something about himself. Now he had shown her a part of his soaking wet life.

Next time. She thought. I'll ask him next time.

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I will update this story soon. Stay tuned.

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