Sketchy Characters – The Lie

The week following our endless evening was a roller coaster ride of hushed calls from unsearchable phone numbers, secretive meetings at obscure establishments and inopportune embraces. Our long involved conversation in Lisa Lund’s Gin Joint back corner booth culminated with a brief but passionate kiss and promises. At various points she said her name was Lilith, but in her family she was called Vashti after her grandmother because they were so much alike although I could call her Saskia because that’s what her father had wanted to name her and her friends had found that out so started calling her that and we were of course going to be friends if not much more. And then, a week later, over potato pancakes and mid-day lager at the Polish Pottery History House’s lower level backroom diner (the best, check it out) her purse fell as she went for the lavatory; she…