MACKIES

‘What happened to him?’ I said.
‘He died,’ she said, folded her laundry from the left dryer.
We were talking about the man lived in the flat on five by the lift. The door of the flat was open, a porcelain sink outside, plaster...
‘When was that?’ I said.
two weeks, then she said, ‘When he moved in he said he only had a few months to live, liver cancer you could see, that was nine years ago.’
she said his girlfriend died - they were junkies - he said they bought some gear and in the morning he woke up found her dead lying there next to him, he got arrested, they let him like he said she was dead when he woke up...
‘He had a band practicing in his flat,’ I said. ‘I saw them at Mackies.’