Volume 1, No. 1

Ten Dollar Conscience / Williams ... 6

"I like your pouch," the girl remarked, surprising Lynn.
It was a canvas fanny pack bought in Alaska during a summer Lynn had worked there with a University of Fairbanks head start program for qualifying rural natives. It cost less than $20 but the dog team bursting across the front drew comments from acquaintances. Normally Lynn told them about her summer in Fairbanks.
"I've had it a long time," she heard herself say and knew she was anxious not to look too rich, in her good earrings and fashion pin, with the black carry case of a Compaq computer on one shoulder. Apart from that she wasn't dressed much differently from the girl, if you substituted something more appropriate for conference going for the blue jeans.
Lynn had a twonie and a loonie in her coin purse and a $10 bill, she knew, in her wallet deeper down. She turned out the coin purse. "Here."
"Thanks."