Craig Taylor

282

A café in Paris, 20th arrondissement.

Mona: What did he say to you?

Alvin: He spoke in English.

Mona: He seemed very assured.

Alvin: But I wasn’t sure exactly what he said. It sounded like, “I smoke because smoking doesn’t cause panther. Not in Paris.”

Mona: It does cause panther in Paris. It causes panther everywhere.

Alvin: You have ash on you.

[He brushes ash from her jacket sleeve.]

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288
A university administrator’s office.
287
A man waits for a coffee in a Lower East Side coffee shop.
286
Mona and Alvin stand before a mural painted on a wall in rural El Salvador.
285
A woman stands on the subway platform at 14th Street.
284
The waiting room of a community health centre.
283
The visitor’s gallery of the European Parliament in Brussels.
282
A café in Paris, 20th arrondissement.
281
The paint aisle.
280
A downtown café.
279
A large hardware store.
278
A laneway.
277
A path through a forest of old cedars.
276
A cafe in Oregon.
274
A used bookstore.
273
In Christian heaven.
272
At the home of a crossword puzzle setter.
271
Outside a car dealership.
270
The Salish Sea.
269
A cafeteria.
268
In a forest.