The Doorman

Chicky is who comes to mind when people think of a doorman at the Bohemia, residents and visitors and regular guests, the extended families who descend each Thanksgiving to watch the parade. Chicky turns back uptown where suddenly another pair of men has appeared. Chicky may not have known all the legal nuances between self-defense and manslaughter and different degrees of murder but he did know what premeditation was. So here it is, she thinks: finally, that long-awaited shoe.