MERMAID

In a Bottle

“Have you seen the hair conditioner?”

No one answered me. “Never mind. I found it.”

I couldn’t tell if everyone had left our motel room, or if I was finally on the receiving end of a well-deserved silent treatment. I was a bore and a bitch and all I did was lose things.

“I’ll be in the shower for the next hour, trying to get these dreads out.”

They left, I …