Room 1238

A woman (played by Tanya Danielle) stands at a hotel room window gazing down at the boulevard below. She scrutinizes a strip mall populated by three retail shops and a Mexican restaurant. A dancing hot still graces one of the signs in front of the restaurant, its presence an enduring testament to both the former tenant who had occupied the spot and the fleeting nature of success in this area. Businesses fold, people migrate, and the region remains in a near-constant state of upheaval. A government-run family food center down the block services many of the local residents. Even at this early hour dozens of people are waiting in a line which extends through its front door, around the corner, and into a graffiti-covered alley. The woman turns away from the window. She can still hear snatches of conversation from the omnipresent groups of loiterers who congregate on the nearby sidewalks and in the stairwells. They rarely approach her anymore when she ventures outside. Her disinterest in selling sex or buying drugs has temporarily displaced their predatory intentions, but they know that few females can survive for long in this grim landscape without resorting to one or both activities. They will wait for her to break. With an abrupt movement the woman closes a curtain over the open window and climbs back into bed with a well-worn paperback novel. The noises from the street and her absorption in the book prevent her from noticing the sound of someone turning a key in the lock of her hotel room door..

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