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Lay On: After Dinner Conversation, #9
By Vera Burris
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Synopsis: Three outcast witches visit the hippy era to tempt a street musician.
After Dinner Conversation is a growing series of short stories across genres to draw out deeper discussions with friends and family. Each story is an accessible example of an abstract ethical or philosophical idea and is accompanied by suggested discussion questions.
Podcast discussions of this short story, and others, is available on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and Youtube.
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Lay On - Vera Burris
Lay On
After Dinner Conversation Series
A MISCHIEVOUS GALE from the bay blew into the city, lifting mini-skirts and tangling long hair, but the three women standing across the street didn't seem affected by it. Christopher watched them, wondering at their serenity, as he played and sang off-key on a street corner of Haight and Ashbury. Polly sat against the prickly brick wall behind him, arms crossed and trembling.
It won't be long now, Babe,
he assured her. Just another couple bucks and we'll have enough for you.
She was working on a gig for him, but needed to score before she could confirm with the club manager. Her habit had grown much worse since their first meeting, when he'd moved from Oklahoma two years earlier.
Back then, in 1967, it was the Summer of Love, a time of hope for the flower children. With escalating war, riots and assassinations, however, 1969 was more of an ugly-chick-one-night-stand: dirtier, more jaded and more desperate, like Christopher and Polly.
He stretched a brilliant smile across his face as the three women approached him. What can I sing for you lovely ladies?
They were dressed similarly to others on the street in long wrapped skirts and ragged tops drooping with no bra, but their eyes—hazel, black and cinnamon brown—seemed to hold the memory of centuries.
The statuesque
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