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It was actually really beat up and scary.

Big and rusty and old-not just distressed to look old, like the rest of the shop. “Further evidence that dreams are basically the backwash in the dregs of your psyche.” Every time, he moved me to a worse chair, until I was practically at the back door-there was this huge back door that led out to the alley, you know, where the client consultation room actually is, only it was sort of like this door that led out to the gym in my grammar school.”

I need you in chair three,’ and he’d make me leave my client at the sink and move my station. “And just when I thought I was making some headway, Ralph would come along and say, ‘No, no, no, this isn’t right at all. It just kept swirling down the sink, blood-red, running down the sink, like something out of Psycho.” My client had long, thick hair, and the color was taking forever to come out at the shampoo bowl. So, I was trying to work, but Ralph kept moving me around to different chairs. I don’t remember if you were there, but you must’ve been. The salon seemed pretty much like it really is, the chairs, the lighting. She turned down the stereo I’d turned up mere moments before. “I’d point it out if you had spinach in your teeth, too. The eye-roll means you sound like a dumbass.” Even though she’d helped me keep the primo parking space at my apartment by carpooling, I couldn’t simply sit back and pretend she wasn’t being ridiculous. But if she was psychic, then I was the poster boy for chastity. “God, Crash, I hate it when you roll your eyes.”ĭon’t get me wrong, Pilar is my best gal-pal. “I had another dream last night,” Pilar was saying. So why everyone gets behind this whole “psychic” hoopla is beyond me. Our culture is built on fables and fairy tales, and we’re bright enough to understand that they’re allegories and metaphors…usually.

Convincing me all the drama was more than just an elaborate fraud? It took a few years….ĭo you believe in Santa Claus? The Tooth Fairy? The email claiming you won a humongous jackpot in some lottery you never actually played? Of course not. But at the tender age of ten, I was assailed by scientific proof of psychic ability from every media outlet.īy the time I was thirty, I owned a metaphysical emporium of my very own, but I wasn’t always this evolved. Psychics were once viewed with as much skepticism as Nigerian email scams and the Bermuda Triangle. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. Skin After Skin: A Ps圜op Novel © 2017 Jordan Castillo Price.