frosted :n.: a cold or icy manner. she sat on the train, dressed in black poly slicker pants that were more zipper than fabric. her hair a halo of hard bleach blonde frosted with pink. every look she gave was hard and full of angst, and when I asked her about mary she just glared at me with these cold hard eyes. I saw her the next day on the same train. and the next day. and the day after. on the fifth day she came up to me before she got off and said she had seen her a few hours ago in a store at the mall. one of those art/poster stores that sell bad reproductions of jesus turning water into wine. when I got there mary was gone, and the store clerk would not answer my questions. as I left the mall I caught a glimps of a crow from the corner of my eye. mary always did love the corvidae, she had named her twin daughters raven and rook. I watched as the crow flew out of view, banking around to the far side of the mall.