Roots and Stems

Short Fiction

Some kind of sinus condition made it difficult to tell if the man’s name was Cain or Cade. He answered to both, Derry knew, from three years of chatting with him on his way to work, and oddly, sometimes late at night after work. 

Lots of people just called him The Flower Guy. 

He set up under the People Mover tracks across from the transit center, just ea…