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Fiction

Amazing Times at the Pub Agora

John Douglas Mullen is a philosophical bar fly on the wall.

It’s too early for the bar regulars and quiet enough so you could hear that little squeak from the ceiling fan. I love these times, me with my friendly bar rag, relaxed, wiping glasses, and thinking of nothing.

The pub’s empty, except for me and him. I’d say the guy’s early forties, grease under his nails and ground into his fingers, corduroy pants, black tee, leather jacket, rumpled hair escaping from under his cap, a newsboy cap, I think they call it. He’s quietly sitting at the bar, drinking a beer from a narrow cocktail glass.

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