Comments on 'Mary Jane and the Bead Woman'Mary Jane blasted into the Nevada border as fast as the little bus could carry her into the night. She stopped at an old sixties roadside motorlodge with pink flamingos happily welcoming her in. There was a diner that was so full of people she wondered where their cars were. She got herself a room, but went straight to the diner afterwards, slumping herself into a ripped red vinyl seat at the counter.
She ordered a coffee from the waitress in a horribly vintage red uniform. The coffee tasted like flowery soap, but Mary Jane ignored it and kept it coming. The people looked happy, chatting loudly over the jukebox that played _Hanky Panky_ on what seemed like repeat.
A wrinkled and warm brown hand touched Mary Jane's arm and she jumped startled and turned around. An old native woman was smiling at her through yellow, crooked teeth. She was holding up a string of small glass beads of red, blue, purple, and white, colors that went on and on in tiny prisms.
"I'm not interested," Mary Jane said.2008-03-15T02:25:11Zhttp://ficlets.com/feed/story/23821Comment on Mary Jane and the Bead Woman<p>I think this is one of my favorite parts of this story so far.</p>
<p> THX - laundromats are awesome!<br />haha</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/23821?basename=486202008-03-15T02:25:11Zmeckanical spiderhttp://ficlets.com/authors/champanesippycupComment on Mary Jane and the Bead Woman<p>Great story!!</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/23821?basename=466422008-03-09T00:12:11Zbutterflygirl6106http://ficlets.com/authors/butterflygirl6106Comment on Mary Jane and the Bead Woman<p>Very eerie, almost unreal scene, as I imagine a diner in the middle of nowhere at a late hour would really feel. Me, I try to avoid them. More of a laundromat sort of guy.<br />LoA</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/23821?basename=466342008-03-09T00:03:47ZTHX 0477http://ficlets.com/authors/thx_0477