Carl Smith

The Total Package

He was down in the basement, and he could hear her walking on the floor above. Even her footsteps sounded angry. It hadn't always been this way. He used to have his own appliance store, where he did quite well. He was a pillar of the community and people respected him. That was up until the super store moved in. Two years later his business was shuttered, and now they lived on social security. People hardly knew his name.