Superpowers Lucy Corin
No one saw her jump from the city's tallest luxury rental apartment
building. A guest at a nearby hotel called authorities later that day
to report a body on the roof of a parking structure making a shape like
frightened cartoon animals from her childhood. She and her partner in
business and love, homeowners, carleasers, personally know three
additional people who killed themselves in or on parking structures
(one a thing called a "carport") this year. There's
yet another documentary going around about the guardrail for the bridge
debate. Clearly someone whose friend jumped there is trying to be
objective but freaking out behind the camera every single second. It's
amazing how transparent a camera can be in a situation like that. The
partners wonder by what superpower they are operating when they can see
through the movie like that. They are driving around, looking for a
parking spot for the thing they're doing after the movie, moving their
perspective in and out so the world looks like the world, then like
it's 2-D on the windshield, and back again. They are always near a
parking structure when they need one, but prefer to circle the city
looking for a spot on the street. It's not the money; they have money
and no shame about it. From above, they are drawing a sacred circle of
protection around the parking structure as they circle for parking, but
they don't tell each other, and they're not going inside the circle
anyway. It's as if they could drive around it enough times to cut
through the earth and have the structure fall like a cookie into
oblivion. The only thing that's not clear is whether or not they know
what they're thinking and what this has to do with how close they are
and how much love they're in, how well they see through each other and
what prevents them from killing themselves over it along the way. >>>NEXT APOCALYPSE>>>
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