Tuesday, May 7, 2019

The Pink Sky Above Venice, LA

Source: Viviana Rishe through www.unsplash.com

Published on The Lit Up in 2018

There are many places Avery wishes she’d rather be now, things she could do — doing touch-up while waiting for the traffic in I-10 to move, at home, binge-watching Netflix for a whole day, or at her interview — everything under the convenience of an air conditioner.

Finding herself wandering aimlessly in the wide strip of walkway stretching along the Venice beach isn’t one, especially after what happened.

She clenches her eyes tight. Tina Sanchez’s sing-song voice is still vivid in her head. In fact, it’s been playing for hours.

“I’m afraid we have to reschedule.”

The I-10 was congested worse than usual and the phone call wasn’t what she expected, especially when she was headed to the interview Sanchez had set up for her.