Taking a close look at things, even dumpsters, can be dangerous. It can give you ideas.
Ideas are dangerous.
Slippery.
Dave’s life is humdrum and that gives him time to take a real close look… at everything. Even taking out the garbage, stinking, rotting garbage is an effort. It takes time. Time that lets him look at it closely. His life, that is, not just the garbage, but that too.
And where does the garbage go?
What’s in those dumpsters behind the apartment building anyway?
I'll wait here while you take a look. Say “hi” to Izzie for me.
Ed Teja is a lifelong storyteller, as well as a former Caribbean boat bum, blues musician, martial artist, and magazine editor. His stories blend and crisscross thrillers, crime, and speculative fiction and the strange situations and people often come from his somewhat surreal life.