Dumpster Portal Pet

By Ed Teja

Where does it go?

Taking a close look at things, even dumpsters, can be dangerous. It can give you ideas.

Ideas are dangerous.

Slippery.

Dave's life is humdrum and that gives him time to take a real close look… at everything. Even taking out the garbage, stinking, rotting garbage is an effort. It takes time. Time that lets him look at it closely. His life, that is, not just the garbage, but that too.

And where does the garbage go?

What's in those dumpsters behind the apartment building anyway?

I'll wait here while you take a look. Say "hi" to Izzie for me.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Float Street Press
• Release date: Aug 28, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223082736

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Dumpster Portal Pet

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Surreal: having the disorienting, hallucinatory quality of a dream; unreal; fantastic.

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Night arrived quickly , replacing evening, turning the sky inky black and dropping the air temperature.

The smell of dampness and the odor of sage rising from the desert around the apartment complex told Dave that rain was coming.

That was pretty much a sure sign around here. Predictable as life got, and Dave's life was nothing if not routine. Predictable.

Inside his apartment, isolated from the smells and sounds and the feel of the air, it hadn’t seemed so late. He hadn’t noticed a storm was approaching.

Dave hoped it wouldn’t rain before he got safely back inside his apartment. He liked the rain well enough, but it was never pleasant to get caught out in a downpour in gym shorts and a tee shirt while taking out the garbage.

Four large plastic bags of rotting garbage.

He sat the bags on the cement walkway outside the door to his apartment, 14 D, the fourteenth anonymous apartment on the