Edge of Dark (2015)
“She bent over her slate, her multicolored hair falling over her eyes and her fingers periodically tapping on the table. She looked both fierce and vulnerable. He wanted to knead the sharpness out of her hunched shoulder-blades, but he also didn’t want to touch her, to risk starting something he might regret.
She confused him regularly.
He pulled out his own slate and started composing a message to Manny about what he’d learned so far. It didn’t come to much.
He missed Manny and Jean...-Paul. He thought about them entirely too often, wished he could sit down and share some still and chat about the strangeness of space, wished he could smell woodsmoke and see sky.
He missed Cricket most of all.
He ended his message with, “Think good thoughts for us, and we’ll think good ones for you. Send back news of home. I miss you all.” Just writing to them left a lump in his chest.MoreLess
She confused him regularly.
He pulled out his own slate and started composing a message to Manny about what he’d learned so far. It didn’t come to much.
He missed Manny and Jean...-Paul. He thought about them entirely too often, wished he could sit down and share some still and chat about the strangeness of space, wished he could smell woodsmoke and see sky.
He missed Cricket most of all.
He ended his message with, “Think good thoughts for us, and we’ll think good ones for you. Send back news of home. I miss you all.” Just writing to them left a lump in his chest.MoreLess
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