Bon Air

By Mike Bozart

Agents 32 & 33 are on assignment in Pittsburgh on a cold December day, looking for semi-hidden clues. The ghost-filled train slows, as the fleeing man runs faster ... away. (Away from where/what?) What has happened? Something sinister? Or strangely surreal?

Rating: PG-13.

Word count: 2626 (per MS Word).

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mike Bozart
• Release date: Jul 28, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005062279

Mike Bozart

Mike Bozart was born in the tidewater area of Virginia (US Navy kid) on a hot afternoon in 1964. He attended a mix of public and Catholic grade schools. After graduating with an Earth Science degree from UNC-Charlotte in 1986, he started doing safety technical writing.Former residences in North Carolina include Raleigh, Greensboro, Wilmington, Carolina Beach, Etowah and Asheville. Charlotte is his current residence. He has also lived in downtown San Francisco (early '90s).Mike has written numerous surreal poem-stories and over a dozen 1500-word quasi-real short stories under the psecret psociety heading. Gold, his first novel, was rough-drafted in just 27 days during a seven-week period (May 23 – July 11, 2013).Mike's first novella was To Morrow Tomorrow (2014); his second was Mysterieau of San Francisco (2015).Mike does artwork under the nom de brosse of m. van tryke.The author is happily remarried (Sharon) with a son (Kirk).

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another psecret psociety pshort pstory

by Agent 33, transcribed in July 2021

Bon Air

by Mike Bozart

© 2021 Mike Bozart

Forty-and-a-shade-or-two-more, maritime Southeast Asian Monique intently studies a colorful, previously unretouched, glossy, tri-fold brochure that she snagged the day before from an information kiosk at PIT (Pittsburgh International Airport). She is seated in front of me (nebulous Agent 33) on the right side of an almost-vacant-due-to-the-Covid-19-pandemic T light-rail car. As the northbound Blue Line train slows for the next station – Denise – on a chilly-but-calm, overcast, mid-to-late December afternoon (2020), she suddenly twists her Filipina head around.

"Why does Pittsburgh end