“I don’t know. I just don’t.” He was shaking his head left to right.

“Until last Wednesday I was quote recovering unquote.”

“I just don’t know.”

“My wife two years ago. My son last year. Now me.”

“Cancer. I don’t know. I still can’t sell you a gun.”

Reynold Junker is a short fiction and poetry writer currently living in Los Angeles (Silver Lake), California.