The next morning, Jamie doesn’t show to help me move the remaining boxes to Great Aunt Sassy’s new apartment. I’m not surprised and do the job myself, which takes me about three hours. I complete the job just before noon.
Hungry and tired, I walk the five blocks to Salad Tyme on Isle Street in downtown Templeton for something healthy for lunch.
Some pimply-faced high school kid waits on me. I take my salad and glass of apple juice to the sidewalk and sit under a canopy. Clouds form a dark mass overhead, indicating rain, but precipitation isn’t in the forecast.
Across the street sits Lady Francesca’s Fiction and Other Fun Things, a risqué bookstore/adult-themed store that sells titles like The Vixen’s Vixen, Lord Humperton After Dark, and Released from Evan. Lady Francesca also sells a v
