A Solitary Blue (2001)
A Solitary Blue
“He didn’t even mind the waiting, because it prolonged the pleasure of anticipation. He felt warm and eager, inside himself. He felt his own face smiling, and he couldn’t have stopped it if he’d wanted to. He hadn’t brought the Martin because it would have had to have its own seat and that was too expensive. But if that was all he had to give up for a summer with Melody, he didn’t mind.He couldn’t sit still. He walked around the waiting room. This time he had arrived during the evening commuter ...rush and the big room thronged with people. Jeff stood by the windows overlooking the field, looking out to the hot sky, looking back across the crowded room to the doors. He wanted to hug himself.It was almost two hours later and Jeff stood dreaming by the tall windows, half watching a jet taking off into a blood red sunset, the air shimmering behind the turbines, when he heard his name called. “Jeffie? Jeffie?” His heart beat fast. The sunlight within him seemed to explode. He turned around.She stood back from him and had a camera with which she took two quick pictures.MoreLess
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