Off the Map …. begins at Part One HERE.
Part Seven
After looking once again around the town’s only park, Jimmy spotted a town employee emptying the trash cans into a small truck. So he went over to him and asked about the bandstand. “I haven’t been able to find one here,” he lamented.
“That’s cuz it ain’t here yet,” the laborer replied. “It’s only here on th’ first Friday of every month. The county recreation department brings it on a trailer and sets it up right over thar,” he continued while pointing over to a level area. “And that’ll be tomorrow. We got the Riders in the Sky gonna perform this month.”
Tomorrow. Jimmy wondered if he could find her before then. Or would she even show up then? He didn’t realize why she couldn’t be found unless she willed it.
Read Part Eight HERE.
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