Invisible Women

Trading Women 3

The woman down the hall runs a small shop of sorts. We aren’t sure what she sells, but we see all types come and go. We see them leave with little bags with her name stenciled on the side. Usually, there are lovely velvet ribbons that seal these bags with stitched kisses so that we cannot see what is inside.

But once, because we were bored, we bombarded one of her customers with affection until she dropped her little bag in surprise, but once we were safe from view, we could not bring ourselves to open it. Instead, we brought it down to the woman down the hall, and we knocked on her wooden door. We told her that the nice lady must have dropped it when she left, but the woman down the hall is not one to be conned. No, the woman down the hall saw through our tricks and schemes. She snatched up the bag and crumbled the ribbons and slammed that thick door without even saying thank you.