prose sketch: just before the haircut

Tue. 5 Mar 2013 3:10 p.m. Eternal Salon

My back is to the street, but I see the flight of cars past the storefront in the wall-sized mirror behind the glass shelves opposite me. There is a grating purr of blow-dryers and the chatter of Asian women’s accented English. Short, black-haired women—including my own stylist, Kathy.