24.8.07

Ministry Fiction Irritant #011

US-1

Greyhound south from Jacksonville.

Dufflebag over their heads. Briefcase between their bodies.

They pass through Casa Cola and then Araquey. She begins to breathe again.

“Nothing to worry about,” he says. Grabs her clammy hand.

They look at the briefcase.

Bunnell. Favoretta.

Two days ago they were poor and no one knew their names.

Tumbull. Mims. Titusville.

“It was a great plan,” he says. “Foolproof.”

Tequesta. Jupiter.

He falls asleep. She watches the blue sky turn to water.

Lantana. Hypoluxo

Gutierrez will to send someone for the briefcase. But her plan was brilliant and they will get away.

Hollywood. Aventura.

She thinks of her mother and sister in Tallahassee. His family is gone.

Homestead.

She wakes him. The wind whips the palm trees and the tall grass.

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