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The Local Jerk

“This place,” I say taking a seat across the gaping center aisle, “is not as magical as you might think.” This earns me a dirty look. But I shrug it off as we both assume the position of strangers avoiding contact, our eyes fixed on the distant podium, alight with votive candles and hope.

She is lovely, even in her anger, magnificent chestnut hair and a complexion of tantalizing caramel. To some, she might even pass as a local. But she is American. I can tell these things.

I breathe in the stale air, rank with complacency and that overly sentimental obsession that afflicts my village. The tourists who come all seem similarly tainted with romantic notions of the past. I try to disabuse them of this, not because I care, but because it amuses me.

“You know,” I say casually, “This place was once a brothel. It was run by fallen nuns and a very dirty Portuguese man who…”

She says nothing, but her magnificently dark eyes bore into me. I try to smile away her anger, but I don’t think it’s working.

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Ana Cristina
Posted 4 months ago

Ha, I love that the peaceful cathedral was once a seedy brothel run by no less than fallen nuns.
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Ana Cristina
Posted 4 months ago

Sequeled.
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Bartimaeus
Posted 4 months ago

ooops sorry if u didnt want me to sequel guys =/
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Bartimaeus
Posted 4 months ago

I drafted mine, since Ana’s did read to be a better sequel than mine
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BARomero
Posted 4 months ago

Between this Ficlet and your soundtrack entry, you seem to be in a particularly irreverent mood today…
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Ana Cristina
Posted 4 months ago

Psst… Bartimaeus sequeled my sequel to this. It’s worth a look.
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g2 (la pianista irlandesa)
Posted 4 months ago

Nicely done here… I’m not really sure what’s going on right now, but I’ll figure it out eventually.
btw, a podium in a church is called a pulpit... just a nitpicky detail there… doesn’t take away from the story, though
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Ana Cristina
Posted 4 months ago

@ g2, this is a sequel to “The Cathedral,” so you might want to click on the prequel to this.
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Eckhouse
Posted 4 months ago

Way to lift a leg on the moment, man. : )
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Lone Writer
Posted 4 months ago

Oh snap, she’s mad.
LoA
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Kermitgorf
Posted 4 months ago

Hmm cynical man.. she seems to ignore him.. underlying tension.