Room At The Inn

Room at the InnWatkins wandered with the other ghosts in North Beach on Christmas Eve--the divorced, the bereft, the deserted, the left out. It was more in accord with his nature to be a lonely ghost than a happy drunk, he decided. The important question remaining was to find how to end the night decently with sleep.He tried the door of City Lights Bookstore, but it was locked for the holiday, the staff having a family glass of wine and waving him away through the glass. Watkins wasn't of this f...