When the small, white image of a figure walking lights up, I dart across the street, his footsteps loud behind mine. I’m aware of the rain, of the dark corridor before me, of a choice I must make when the crosswalk ends. Do I walk the well-lit street to the apartment complex parking lot, or chance the brush-lined, secluded sidewalk?
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