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This is an excerpt from my recently published novel The Falling Circle<\/a>, available for Kindle and in good ol’ paper book form on Amazon.com<\/em><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Falling-Circle-Jeffrey-Matucha-ebook\/dp\/B07K7NVKBW\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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A Job<\/h4>\n

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It was with some reluctance that Preston agreed to meet Miss Griffith. The only thing he knew about Miss Griffith was that she had, as Tam put it,     \u201cA weird job that pays really well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tam knew that Preston was looking for extra work. She told him about a temporary job with a woman who was related to Tam in some sort of roundabout way. She had explained how it came to be that she was related to her, but Preston couldn’t remember how the convoluted connection went. Tam had mentioned something about Preston being \u201cqualified\u201d for the job.<\/p>\n

    \u201cHow d’ya know I’m qualified for the job?\u201d he asked.
\n     \u201cBecause they want someone who’s used to freaks.\u201d
\n     \u201cYep. That’s me.\u201d<\/p>\n

He had asked Tam some other questions, such as why exactly did you have to be used to freaks in order to have the job? She told him that Miss Griffith would fill him in, and that it was basically some sort of moving job. Tam also mentioned that she lived up in the hills, in one of the swankier neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

Preston thought about how much money he had at the moment and when the rent was due. He was doing okay, for the time being, so he decided that the mystery job sounded a little too dubious to consider since he had very little to go on. It wasn’t until he remembered that bills were going to be due next week that he reconsidered the idea.<\/p>\n

Preston told Tam to go ahead and tell her relation that he would meet her, if for no other reason than to find out what the job was about.<\/p>\n

About an hour later Tam came by his room to tell him that Miss Griffith was on her way over to the house to tell him about the mystery job.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Later on, as Preston waited in his room for Miss Griffith to arrive, he almost considered bailing out and telling Tam to tell her relation that he changed his mind. Considering all of the ambiguous descriptions he had gotten so far, it almost sounded as if she wanted him to so something illegal, or completely gross, or both.<\/p>\n

    As he was thinking about it, there was a knock on his door. It was Tam.
\n     \u201cHey Preston. My aunt’s here to talk to you about the job.\u201d She always referred to Miss Griffith as her aunt, even though she wasn’t technically her niece. At least Preston had remembered that much.
\n     \u201cOkay.\u201d
\n     \u201cShe’s waiting for you in my room. C’mon.\u201d
\n     Tam started down the hall, but Preston hesitated.
\n     \u201cWhat’s up?\u201d asked Tam.
\n     \u201cWhat is it this woman wants me to do anyways?\u201d
\n     \u201cShe’ll tell you that.\u201d
\n     \u201cYeah, but why can’t she tell me over the phone? Or why can’t you just tell me? I mean, is it something illegal?\u201d
\n     \u201cNo, it’s nothing like that. It’s just kind of a weird job, maybe just a little gross.\u201d
\n     \u201cYeah, that’s what I’m worried about.\u201d
\n     \u201cShe knows there’s a good chance you’ll turn down the job. That’s okay with her if that’s what you decide to do.\u201d
\n     \u201cAll right, whatever!\u201d By now he was so ruffled by their secrecy and seriousness that he wouldn’t have a problem telling her no if he didn’t want to do whatever it was she had in mind.
\n     They walked into Tam’s bedroom.
\n     \u201cShe’s in there,\u201d said Tam, pointing to her next room.
\n     \u201cAren’tcha’ gonna go in there with me?\u201d asked Preston.
\n     \u201cMan, she really does have you unnerved, doesn’t she? She doesn’t bite.\u201d
\n     \u201cWell, I do,\u201d said Preston.<\/p>\n

    Tam left and he cautiously walked into the next room. He slowly opened the door and a woman who was sitting in a chair across the room stood up.
\n     She was a somewhat tall middle aged woman who was actually wearing a skirt dress. Her hair was done in short curls and she held onto a small purse in her left hand. She looked as if she just walked out of a Fifties television show and should have been wearing white gloves. She had on a pair of black, thick rimmed glasses, which partially shielded her face. Her pointed nose and dimpled cheeks looked positively preconceived.
\n      Preston felt awkward, standing there in ripped black jeans, two day old Neurosis t-shirt, and his hair all wild and dangling about his face, as he had not gotten around to shaving his head again
\n     \u201cAre you Preston?\u201d asked the woman demurely with a smile.
\n     \u201cYeah.\u201d
\n     \u201cHi. I’m Tammy’s Aunt Jean.\u201d
\n      Tammy?<\/em>
\n      She held forth a hand, seemingly unaffected by the contrast between her Fifties housewife presence and Preston’s scruffy post-punk exterior.
\n     \u201cHi. Nice ta’ meet ya’,\u201d said Preston as he shook her hand.
\n      He wasn’t sure how to act around Miss Griffith. He knew a lot of his friends would act incredulous in the presence of such a person, but he just never had the nerve to behave like that around people such as Miss Griffith unless they gave him a good reason to.
\n     \u201cDoesn’t Tammy have such a nice place?\u201d asked Miss Griffith with a bright smile.
\n      Preston suppressed a grin. The thought of Tam being referred to as Tammy was quite amusing. \u201cYes, very nice. Much nicer than the rest of the house, actually.\u201d
\n      He knew that Tam liked to keep her place nice and tidy, but he also knew that she kept the place clean for her S&M customers. He wondered if Miss Griffith had any idea what it was that Tam did for a living.
\n     \u201cWell, have a seat and I’ll tell you about the job,\u201d said Miss Griffith. She sat back down where she had been sitting before. Preston sat down on one of Tam’s waiting room chairs.
\n      He wondered what Miss Griffith would do if she saw the harness in the next room.
\n     \u201cI know you must be wondering what’s going on, but I asked Tammy not to tell you about the job before I talked to you.\u201d
\n      Preston couldn’t suppress a chuckle. \u201cI’m sorry Miss Griffith…\u201d
\n    \u201cJean.\u201d
\n    \u201cJean, it’s just that you’re the only person I know who calls her Tammy.\u201d
\n     \u201cReally?\u201d
\n     \u201cIt just sounds kinda funny to me. Like she’s four years old or something.\u201d
\n     \u201cWell, I’ve known Tammy since she was a baby.\u201d
\n     \u201cHe he.\u201d
\n     \u201cSo, about the job. I think Tammy has already told you that it was a moving job,\u201d said Miss Griffith, \u201cand that much is true, but it’s the type of moving job…\u201d
\n     She hesitated, as if she couldn’t spit out what she was going to say next. She closed her mouth and sat back in her chair, apparently trying to collect herself.
\n     \u201cMy sister Helen,\u201d choked Miss Griffith, \u201crecently lost her son Devin.\u201d
\n     \u201cOkay.\u201d
\n     \u201cWe need to clear out his room.\u201d
\n     \u201cUh-huh.\u201d
\n     \u201cAnd we wanted to hire someone to do it for us.\u201d
\n     \u201cHm.\u201d
\n     \u201cYes.\u201d
\n     \u201cIsn’t that something she should do? Or, I mean, another member of the family? It sounds kinda personal.\u201d
\n     \u201cWell, yes, it is awfully personal. That’s one of the problems we’re having.\u201d Miss Griffith shifted in her chair and leaned forward. \u201cYou see, her son Devin was, well, I don’t know how to put this. He was into a lot of, things,\u201d continued Miss Griffith, \u201cthat we weren’t too sure about.\u201d
\n     \u201cThings?\u201d
\n     \u201cYes, he listened to this, music, and he dyed his hair all kinds of bizarre colors.\u201d
\n     \u201cYou mean he was a punk?\u201d
\n     \u201cI guess so. I think he thought he was a vampire or something.\u201d
\n     \u201cYou mean he was a Goth?\u201d
\n     \u201cWell, I think you know what I mean. I don’t know anything about that, those kind of things. I mean, obviously you’re a very nice young man, but you’d know more about that.\u201d
\n     \u201cAbout this Devin kid,\u201d interrupted Preston, \u201cAre we just talking about funny looking and listening to weird music or was there something else?\u201d
\n     \u201d…Yes…\u201d Miss Griffith sat back. Her face was turning red. \u201cWe, think he was into some kind of drugs. and some, sex practices.\u201d
\n     She practically had to choke out the phrase \u201csex practices\u201d. She looked for a moment as if she might burst into tears, or possibly throw up.
\n     \u201cWe want someone else to clear out his room,\u201d she continued, \u201cbecause we’re afraid of what we might find in there.\u201d
\n     \u201cOkay.\u201d
\n     \u201cWe want someone who…\u201d She stopped. She looked down at the floor and fumbled with her hands. \u201cI don’t want you to think that I’m saying you’re a bad person.\u201d
\n     \u201cYou want someone who wouldn’t be fazed by weird sex and drugs stuff, right?\u201d he said rather suddenly and confidently.
\n     \u201cWell, it’s just all that music and those horrible t-shirts and, we’re not exactly sure what’s in there.\u201d She looked up. \u201cI’m not trying to say you’re a bad person.\u201d
\n     \u201cLady, I may not be a devil, but I ain’t no angel either. I’ve seen a lot a weird stuff in my time, including freaky looking sex and drugs stuff.\u201d
\n     \u201cYes.\u201d She was looking back down at the floor again.
\n    \u201cHow old was he?\u201d
\n     \u201cSixteen.\u201d
\n      Now that Preston had finally found out what the job was about, he was quite turned off by the idea of rooting around some dead sixteen year old’s pit of a room.
\n      But then again, he felt bad for Miss Griffith. She seemed like the kind of person who would be frightened by a Clash t-shirt, let alone a Skinny Puppy album cover.
\n     \u201cWe’d rent you a truck to haul the refuse away,\u201d said Miss Griffith,     \u201cand we’d pay you two hundred dollars for the day’s work.
\n     That was the clincher. There was no way he could turn down two hundred dollars for one day’s work. He almost felt that it might be too generous, but he wasn’t going to let that get in his way.
\n     \u201cI’m sorry,\u201d gasped Miss Griffith as a tear rolled down her cheek.     \u201cI know I’m asking a lot.\u201d
\n      Preston sat there, wondering what to do next, as Miss Griffith looked down to the floor and dabbed her face with a handkerchief.<\/p>\n

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