Outside the Barricade

Observing: Consecutive Substack Story 1042

Photo by Cashmere Satin on Unsplash

I’m on a bench about two blocks from Children’s Hospital. 

My ass is actually on the bench, which is notable, because everyone else Downtown that I can see is standing.

There’s a “credible” bomb threat at Children’s and the police have streets blocked off from Martin to 9th to Gravestin to I-have-no-idea on the east.

You can see the roof of Children’s from where I’m at, and most people are staring at it as though any minute it will collapse like the World Trade Center.