Rihanna Will Set You Free, You Best Believe That

(photo by Chris B)

When she first saw him back-bent, huddled in the dark between the washing machines and the dryers, she gasped. She didn’t mean to. She regretted it. But you never expect to find a strange man in your basement. He was so much bigger than she was.

He didn’t move. He didn’t turn to face her. He stayed hunched and hidden. There was something about how he was curled-up there in the…