Things You Should Know

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I am walking, holding a small screen, watching the green dot move like the blip of a plane, the blink of a ship’s radar. Searching. I am on the lookout for submarines. I am an air traffic controller trying to keep everything at the right distance. I am lost.

A man steps out of the darkness onto the sidewalk. “Plane gone down?” he asks.

It is nearly night; the sky is still blue at the top, but it is dark down here.

“I was just walking the dog,” he says.

I nod. The dog is nowhere to be seen.

“You’re not from around here are you?”

“Not originally,” I say. “But we’re over on Maple now.”

“Tierney,” the man says. “John Tierney.”

“Harris,” I say. “Geordie Harris.”

“Welcome to the neighborhood. Welcome to town.”

He points to my screen; the dot seems to have stopped traveling.

“I was hoping to hell that was a toy — a remote control,” he says. “I was hoping to have some fun. Are you driving a car or floating a boat somewhere around here?”

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