“The woman beside her buttons her shirt, then wheels her cart back to the corner opposite where the other woman is squatting. Are they friends? It doesn’t appear that way, although they are of similar age and equally decrepit. Olivia remembers reading about them recently, the women who inhabit that bathroom. The article said there was no official attempt to oust them. Olivia was surprised to read that, and glad. She can’t imagine what their lives must be like, other than the obvious—that they each must have left a situation more untenable than the Port Authority ladies’ room.”
From ‘The Ones We Keep’ – included in the showcase