He looks at his dusty sign on the side which says: ‘Keys Cut Here’. As they always have, the pink ballet shoes dangle from a nail above the shop counter. The satin still looks like new.
His wife comes in from the kitchen out back and places two coffee mugs on the worktop.
She looks her husband and says: She’d have been thirty today.
I know, he says, and I can’t take it any longer. I’ve had enough.
His wife nods and turns the sign on the door to read ‘Closed’ and says: It’s time to leave this place behind.
His wife comes in from the kitchen out back and places two coffee mugs on the worktop.
She looks her husband and says: She’d have been thirty today.
I know, he says, and I can’t take it any longer. I’ve had enough.
His wife nods and turns the sign on the door to read ‘Closed’ and says: It’s time to leave this place behind.
