Oddities

The store has sat vacant for a while now, maybe a couple of years. Windows smashed for sport and left alone out of neglect or indifference, now fixed and the building given a fresh coat of paint. Wonder if whoever put together the sign out front meant to say "odds and ends" or if there will really be oddities on display, like jackalopes and shrunken heads. The first real spring day and the tattered flag snaps in the wind; a neighbor readies a rummage table with a truly hideous doll that belongs with the other oddities.