TUESDAY TALES. WORD PROMPT "EVIL"

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Every morning I woke up sure the Gold’s had been a dream. But it was real. And every night I waited for the next shoe to drop –them deciding they don’t want me or the Plaid Lady taking me away. Who would want me? Hell, if I was them, I wouldn’t want me, either.

I missed the park. The weather was getting cooler, making it harder and harder to sleep out there. I snuck away a couple of afternoons to visit Balto and that weird Jag guy who saved me.

Even with Snake and that asshole gone, I still felt the presence of evil. I wondered if Jag would turn against me. The atmosphere in the park had an edge, as if the evil that followed me was still around, waiting to jump me.

“No more sleeping in the park, Jamie,” Mrs. Gold said as she stirred the spaghetti sauce.

Who the fuck did she think she was, telling me what to do?

“Okay, Mrs. Gold.”

Tell ‘em what they want to hear. I learned that by the time I was seven.

“I mean it. It’s not safe. Muggers and who knows what other evil lurks there. You’re better off here with us.”

“You’re right.” String her along. Still, I felt what she talked about. It had been my rock. I needed the park, my safe place. I wished the Golds had been that, but who could I trust?

The truth? No one.

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