The Galleon, Volume 85, 2010 Page: 25
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tattoos, chained pants, and heavy combat boots
as well as a nearly tangible haze of body odor.
"Those are some sweet animals you got on
your feet," she said, leaning into him and undoing
the laces to his boots.
The stoner laughed and began to cat-fight
with her necklace.
"Girl, I'm all animal!"
Kale's house was out in the country on an
old plantation, nothing but open fields all around
and a double porch overlooking the swampy
river, just like out of a movie. Warm summer
wind picked up her diaphanous skirt in a pink
sashay of silk as she charged up the front steps.
She knocked on the front door, twisting the ugly
driftwood necklace around her finger, waiting. No
one answered, so she let herself in. Southerners
never locked their houses, even Angela sometimes
forgot to lock up her apartment before she left.
Old habits die hard.
Cocoa colored beer bottles lined the floor
of the house in rows with skinny paths curling
through them. A grand chandelier dangled on a
cobweb-roped chain, beer bottles over the light
bulbs. Angela didn't have time to deal with some
drunk, insane author nicely. She slammed the25
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