christy's convenience store, 5.30pm

charlie 
...Some lady gives me a few coins. She looks scared of me in some way, but I don't know why. I'm just doing my job.

When I was a little boy in the projects, my poppa always used to come home talking really loud about the government. He said that the government was a way for the white folks to put us down. One night he didn't come home. My momma always used to say Good riddance, man smelled like a beer factory half the time. But I always believed poppa...