Apex predators in a city of carrion.
In this section, I tried to capture just how strange and unsettling it feels the first time a child visits a parent’s workplace. It’s a bit like seeing a friend acting on stage, in costume — they both are and are not the person you thought you knew. My father was in the U.S. Army for 20+ years; this passage reflects my awe and confusion as a child at seeing him dressed in combat fatigues, sleeves rolled up, boots on his desk, smoking cigarettes and trading vulgar jokes with other sergeants at the armory.
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