Luna entered the cafe with a hand attached to the front of her dress.
She sat in the booth facing the streetlight peering inside the window
of the cafe. Under the streetlight was man that crawled in and out of
the trash cans that were in a circle. His long worm-like body
slithered around the cold hard pavement in circles, then back in one
of the trash cans, and out again. The cycle continued the entire time
Luna was in the cafe.
She watched this man, and noticed his naked gray skin was illuminated
by the light from the streetlight. She could see every terrible boil
on his dry flaky skin. Skin particles and a slimy oil residue was
left on sidewalk in an almost cryptic message.
This made the hand that was attached to Luna's dress very nervous.
He wasn't the most out going of hands or even body parts for that
matter. Though he did become friendly with a female foot next door.
They would sit in the foot's room, drink Sangria and listen to Nick
Drake records. Luna didn't like the foot very much. She was very
jealous. So she tried very hard to prevent the hand from seeing the
foot. Often hiding his cell phone, or deleting his messages on
Facebook.
This put a division in Luna and the hand's relationship for a time.
Just a week or so ago, they began to talk. Mostly about the Russian
Revelation and chocolate fingers.
Still, the worm-like man crawling in and out of trash cans made the
hand nervous. And when the waitress came to take their order, the
hand leaped from the front of Luna's dress and attached itself to the
waitress' face.
The waitress ran through the crowded cafe screaming, knocking dishes
into customers and dumping a mop bucket on the owner's feet. After a
few minutes of this folly, the hand removed itself from the waitress'
face.
With all eyes on them, and whispers to their backs, Luna and her hand
left the cafe, only slightly embarrassed.
On the street, under the streetlight, the worm-like man settled out
in front of one of the trash cans. He smiled hugely at Luna and the
hand, bearing all his blackened teeth. The hand crawled into the
trash can first, then Luna, followed by the worm-like man.
Luna was happy. She had that warm feeling of belonging to someone.
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