Published in Ability Magazine, January 2005. "One summer evening in
Tucson,
Arizona, I was on my way home from the university after staying late to finish an assignment. It was about
and the sun was almost at rest behind the
TucsonMountains. When I was about half way to my destination, I noticed a figure standing on the corner about a block away. As I got closer, I saw a man in his early twenties looking to rather scruffy as though he had not showered in several days. He was, at best, an imitation relic left over from the sixties era in need of a fix. As I came within his range, he asked me if I had any and loose change. I said that I had no money and kept going. He was persistent, however, and at the point where I was closest to him, he took several steps to approach me with a clearly malicious intent. "
