Mara looked around the little shop of shelves and she began to relax, slowly pushing the past week into an unattended part of her mind. Old lamps, reel-to-reel tape recorders, typewriters, assorted kitchen appliances and other gadgets filled the shelves and covered every wall of the store. Antique alarm clocks sporting huge ringers, pocket watches, locket watches, just plain wristwatches and electronics such as calculators the size of bricks were neatly displayed in a lighted glass counter to the left of the door.
At the end of the display case, a wooden counter, Mara’s work space, featured an antique bronze cash register and an old black rotary-dial telephone off to one side. Hanging above was a rectangular green-and-yellow stained-glass light fixture suspended on gold chains emblazoned
