The Talisman: Part one by Mark Alberto Yoder Nuñez

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Photograph by Mark Alberto Yoder Nunez

It was a sunny day but with a chill from the ocean when I was on a pier looking at the ships and gazing out to sea.  Lost as I was in thought I turned and started walking with no purpose back along the wharf to the narrow ways along the waterfront.  Between the same, old buildings, wandering, eventually my feet led me, as I was between memories and fantasies, to the realization that I wasn’t sure exactly where I was.  I turned a corner down a...