The brave little toaster
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But post-party, in the pale light of morning, the future of America takes its hangover to Union Street. On date nights and parents’ weekends, during homecoming and the Halloween block party, Court Street’s cherry red seats are stuffed with students and the malt machine purrs nonstop. Likewise, no geis prohibits Union-goers from the tiles and tables of the Court. There is no law that says a student who eats the Court Street’s gleaming eggs cannot turn and splurt ketchup on the fries at Union. Her spells are solid, unassuming, starting slow and slowly building, stone on stone, to form a sturdy wall. Her magic lasts, like a well-dug posthole or a rough-cut rafter of hundred-year oak. The Union witch favors boot cut jeans and a Bobcat sweatshirt, a blunt end on her ponytail. It is pretty, fast, impressive, like gunpowder meeting a match.
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It may fray at the edges, but it has flash.
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Her magic is stitched up fast like stage clothes, heavy with glitter. She has, on occasion, turned fractious frat boys into toads. The Court Street witch has full red lips and hooded eyes, long black hair like a curling river rapid. There are two witches in Athens, too, and each holds court in her respective diner. Potatoes fried in sour grease arrive on thick ceramic plates, borne by pockmarked servers whose lives have passed like white bread through the conveyor belt of an industrial toaster, burnt and slow. The Union Street Diner is the older of the two establishments, open every hour of the day, serving breakfast twenty-four seven. The waitstaff are young and enticing, dressed in gingham and high-waisted jeans. The Court Street Diner says it is stuck in the 1960s, but it is too hip to be a throwback. The Court Street Diner serves tuna melts and satin malts in silver mixing cups.