Chapter 7It took him half an hour longer to get home from the library with the books he checked out. Since he didn’t have his backpack, he had to hold the paper bag the librarian gave him in one hand. Skating with the books threw him off balance a few times. Halfway through, his stomach growled and he stopped at the local burger joint and ate his burger seated on the concrete picnic tables that faced the main road.
The sun had set, and now the town took on interesting shadows. He had once tried to use charcoal to draw the chiaroscuro effect that dusk had on the small town and its use of turn of the early twentieth-century light fixtures. Johnny knew that the town had replaced the original gas lit lanterns with this faux look, but the parallel-lined lights contrasting against a darkening o
