Shadow on the Sun

It took Jason a little under five minutes to completely suss me out. Jason was a real estate agent for The Villages, the largest retirement community in the world. It was his job to sell houses in Florida to old people, and he appeared to be very good at his job. He was about my age, somewhere in his early thirties, but he probably made ten times my income. In fact, this was one of the first things Jason told me when I got in his enormous Toyota pickup. He apologized for being late, and said he’d been up until dawn the previous night playing cards. He’d won big. He’d won twice what I make in a year.