It rested lightly on his head sideways with the bill tipped down towards his right ear. He hadn’t found anyone to play with all afternoon. All the houses in his neighborhood seemed to be occupied by retired people. He had forgotten that all the children that he had known in his youth had grown up and moved away years before and in most cases his friend’s parents had moved as well.
When he went to the playground at his old Elementary School down the street in search of someone to play catch with, he discovered that the school was an abandoned wreck. From the number of broken windows, Thomas gathered that it had been closed for some time. He peered inside one of the windows and saw a thick coating of dust covering the empty linoleum-tiled floor.