Snow

Yolanda flips through a Vogue on the couch, bemoaning her life, it’s lack of glamor, it’s zero excitement, it’s nil romance. She dreams of champagne in the afternoon and floating gowns of chiffon worn on snow-white beaches. One glance at her surroundings is enough to send her spiralling down the depression staircase. Barry entering at that moment, seals the deal. His smell fills the space.

“It’s snowing,” he says, shaking his head over top of her; chuckling as the dandruff floats down. “Yeyo, Yola baby, I wanna get snowed.”

“Oh yay!” says Yolanda with no enthusiasm at all.

“I’ve got an 8ball,” says Barry, waving a baggie of soft white powder in front of her nose.

Yolanda ignores him; staring at the magazine pages.

“I saw the ski instructor. This is fresh snow. Fell today. He had a chicken of the stuff. A whole Ki, imagine. Score, huh? Blow the bugles, Babe, that’s my kinda cake.”

Yolanda sighs, watching his pants slide down as he bends over, cutting the lines. Is this all life has to offer? A lint filled (or was it lint) butt crack in a tiny, grimy apartment?

“Come and join me at the rails, Babe. It’ll only take a jiff. Hahaha man I crack myself up sometimes. Ha ha ha. You get it Babe, Jif, crack? Hahaha!”

Yolanda shakes her head, still flipping pages.

“Just a little sniff, Babe. “

“Naw, I’m quitting. Gotta get out of this rats nest.” Get away from you she thinks.

Barry shrugs. Bending over the lines, he snorts each one in quick succession. “Man, that

rocks my world. He slides a wet finger through the dust of soft powder. “Hmmm

dessert.” Finger to his gums, a puzzled expression on his face he falls face forward.

Yolanda sighs, “I guess you’re snowed now, Barry.” She picks up her phone with gilded

nails and taps 911. “Ambulance please, suspected overdose.”

That solves one problem, she thinks and she sits back to wait for the future.

Snow – Clo Carey January 2020

Nonsense story – cocaine slang

Photo credits: Getty Images and Clo Carey

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