He came closer. Cavernous lips and nose folded into wide jowls and a chin four layers deep. He began to reach for her. A sun-browned, knotted, farm-raised hand with calluses and oily nails meant to sicken her. “I have children.” she wanted to scream but instead…..
she bolted like a summer doe on a busy highway over a kneeling store clerk and straight out of Food Lion dropping her purchases while cursing the maskless man.