Gecko

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It rained just before dawn the day Jim Monday’s mind was invaded. The streets in Long Beach’s fashionable Belmont Shore district were slick and wet. Dew glistened from the palm fronds. A cool breeze drifted in off the ocean. A late morning chill hung in the air.

“ Where am I?” He heard the words in his head as if they were his own thoughts, but they weren’t. He stepped around a puddle, stopped at the crosswalk.

“ Where am I?” He heard it again, looked up, shaken. The light was still red.

“ Did you hear a word I said?” David asked. David Askew was both his lawyer and his best friend.

“ I’m sorry, I didn’t. My mind was wandering,” Jim said.

“ Okay, I’ll ask it again. Do you think there’s any chance you can talk her out of this?”

“ I tried, but she’s in love with him.” He spat the words as he glared across the street at the corner building of Cobb and Cobb, Attorneys at Law. In minutes he would be in the second floor office of Frank Cobb, the younger, signing half his life away.

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