The Smells of Shanghai

Shanghai, Kerosene, Lizard and Nest

Photo by Trần Quang Phú on Unsplash

The job turned out to be a scam. Nick Lougmer could have been at his kid’s ballgame in Newark, but no, he was in a strange hotel in Shanghai.

Some of the rooms seemed empty, abandoned.

Some of the residents of the hotel seemed to have lived there for years if not generations.

Nick, on the flight over, had been obsessing over the language barrier.