*Gina*
“I need you to manage things for the full day and night, until closing”. I say.
Sam Bluebeard … no one believes that is his real name, but in this area of the city one changes names as easily and sometimes as often as one changes stockings … narrows his eyes and pursed his lips as though he can’t believe the words I have just announced, words that had seemed foreign rolling off my tongue as I stand by the polished counter near the back of the public taproom of my bar.
Never before have I missed an entire day of work or put him in complete charge. Not that I don’t trust him to do the job … I do.
Occasionally I take some time to myself in the afternoon, and he will handle matters while I am away, but my absence never lasts longer than a couple of hours because Ii have never had a
