The Mambo's Tale
A young widow gets more than she expects when she invokes the spirit of Mardi Gras
It ended, as so many things do, with pain, and with anger, and with recriminations that left more questions than answers in their wake. It ended with the feral scent of blood; sweet and high. It ended badly; with sirens caterwauling off nearby tenement buildings, with curious onlookers, with too much gossip and not enough truth. And as dawn broke over a city facing its third thunderstorm in as many days, it ended in h...