Jilly's days outside the diner are heat and filth and boredom. She waits with two foul-mouthed, angry Mexican teens and her younger brother, Stinke, whose nickname has stuck for a reason. If only something would happen, Jilly thinks, to "put a dent in her days" spent waiting for all their mother's table-hopping inside. Big Rod, who owns the diner, has forbidden the four kids to come inside and cool under the AC. They aren't allowed to sit on the building's curb facing the highway and the blistering Gulf bay on the other side. One chair between them, they fight over who gets to sit in it. Jilly stands till her feet ache, trying to make herself invisible to the three mean boys, while hoping to become visible, human, to the customers at the diner. If only something would happen. And then it does...
Genre: Literary Fiction
Genre: Literary Fiction
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