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Black Widow

One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one’s cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas…

He sat staring at the person in the train stopped at the station going in the opposite direction. She sat staring ahead, never noticing that she was being watched. Both trains began to move and he knew that in another timeline or in another universe, they had been happy together.

She considered the birds to be her friends. She’d put out food for them each morning and then she’d watch as they came to the feeders to gorge themselves for the day. She wondered what they would do if something ever happened to her. Would they miss the meals she provided if she failed to put out the food one morning?

1. The Freckles – See the Rain
2. Intense & Molly Duncan – Jammin in My Head
3. K Scope – Black Widow
4. K Scope – The Setup
5. LTJ Bukem – Cosmic Interlude
6. Big Bud – Distant Space
7. Artemis – First Light
8. LTJ Bukem & DRS – Constellation
9. Poets of Thought – The Rhyme Goes On
10. Blame – Revival
11. Rollercone – Fictions
12. Artemis – Silver Dawn
13. Blame – Latitude
14. Tayla – Stargazing