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Weekly Contest #291
Lobitos This morning we - Johnny and Fern and I - visited the grocery store to buy milk and Plataño crisps. Sometimes on our way through the desert streets we would see real people, who were always very nullified in their behaviours. Be it the portly fishermen who painted god-fearing slogans on their beached vessels, or the grocery store hermits – the pale ‘abuelitas’ who never stepped outside the dank shade of their tiendas - everyone moved pausingly, in slow, drawn-out stages. These locals were often observed sedentary in transient places...
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