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Back Room

James B. Nicola

    Some men call her by the nickname they dreamt up when she was young and a looker: Bliss.

    But now her chest’s uneven, one boob gone, the other repaired, her teeth that are left have turned brown, and she wafts pungent. . . . Well she doesn’t douche as religiously now.

    She parks it by a table in the rear, the customer comes up and pays his Washington, Hamilton or Franklin, and she lays him in the back room.

    One or two are from the old days, they remember what they used to call her, but once I asked her her real name.

    Oh yea, I said. I’d forgotten that she’d told me years ago, when I was young.

    I asked her which she’d prefer. Prefer for what? she said. For me to call you. —Oh, Honey, it don’t matter. Faith is just a name. Whatever you call me, you know what I am.



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