Tarot parlor
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Don't flip the card.
After the last reading, the tarot parlor is still warm with incense and velvet. Dala will not put the deck away. “Don’t flip the card.” Leave through the velvet curtain and the lights simply go out.
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About this work
The last reading is over. The waiting chairs are empty. Only the inner parlor is still yellow with lamp light. Dala is thirty-three. She reads tarot. She is married. Her husband does not believe in the cards. He is traveling this week.
“Don’t flip the card.” Open the velvet curtain and the night ends as a session. Stay at the reading cloth and it stops being a session.
Characters
- DalaTarot reader · married woman
- MeNarrator · night regular
- HusbandTraveling · mentioned
