West Portal

By Mike Bozart

Agents 32 and 33 traipse around San Francisco on a grey October day, finally alighting in the West Portal neighborhood. All is going relatively well, but thoughts of what might have been pervade. Uncertainty abounds. The tram carries memories down the line.

Rated G: ok for all ages.

Word count 2020 (per MS Word).

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mike Bozart
• Release date: Nov 29, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005732745

Book preview

After a brisk-to-bracing, misty-to-spritzly morning walk from the MUNI Route 28 Welcome Center bus stop to the south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge and an uneventful-save-for-the-sudden-boarding-of-a-dozen-or-so-very-excited-giggling-and-screaming-schoolgirls California Street cable car ride, Monique (latent Agent 32) and I (overt Agent 33) find ourselves seated at a sidewalk dining corral on West Portal Avenue in the southwest quadrant of San Francisco. It is a sparsity-of-patrons, earlier-engrossing-conversations-now-dissipated, late-lunch hour. The large Goat Hill cheese pizza slices are filling our breakfast-skipped empty tanks. Monique’s pumpkin-orange Juice Portal (the adjacent establishment) turmeric concoction gets a thumbs-up reaction. Life was merely – and mutedly merrily – passing