The Man in the Cafe

by Jeff Barker

Originally published on November 1, 1998

The man entered the small, brightly lit café and quietly sat down in a high-backed vinyl-upholstered booth. The wire caged clock over the door drew the man’s attention. Why such an institutionalesque clock in a diner? It was 3:12 a.m. The café’s latest and only patron, tall, with distinguished gray wisps looked around the small [...]