An ashtray shared with Tiny Ewell at White Flag

texture · 8 Nov YDAU, evening

• When: 8 Nov YDAU, Interdependence Day Sunday evening — the White Flag meeting's raffle-break.
• What: At the White Flag AA meeting Tiny Ewell — blue suit, laser chronometer, mirror-shine tiny shoes — "is sharing a dirty aluminum ashtray with Nell Gunther," both of them "pretending to study the blond false wood of the tabletop" and pointedly not acknowledging Gately. Given the standing tattoo wall between them, the shared ashtray is a small, silent, entirely unexplained coexistence; the text offers only the tableau.