The pier on Friday night. Everything just as usual. I walked over to the bench with my head down and offered Dean Murphy one of Mum’s Marlboros if he’d move up.
As the queue moves steadily forwards and I stare at the bald patch on the back of Valerie’s head, I’m thinking back to Saturday night, when you asked if I was busy, said you could get me a pass.
Coral cuts the Virgin Mary out of The Children’s Holy Bible and puts her face-down onto the scanner. Joseph and his donkey peer out at her through the hole Mary left.